I think that there are some problems with it when trying using kio or gvfs.
Maybe we should make a method for kio-gvfs-posix interlop. It could also could
simplify xdg-open too.
Regards,
Marc Boocha
On 2020-01-11 20:45, Carson Black wrote:
This is already a thing somewhat with XDG desktop portals. Both GTK+
and Qt (and other toolkits) are able to take advantage of them, and
you can swap out the portals being used to switch between file
pickers, among other things.
See: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal,
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk,
https://github.com/KDE/xdg-desktop-portal-kde.
-- Carson Black [ jan Pontaoski ]
Am Sa., 11. Jan. 2020 um 10:10 Uhr schrieb Cezary Drożak <cza...@drozak.net>:
Hello,
since there is no standard for implementing a file picker in applications, each
application uses a different one.
If the application has been written in GTK+, it will use the GTK+ file picker,
if it has been written in QT it will use QT file picker.
The problem with this approach is that they differ in look, feature set,
accessibility and most importantly in the usage. It also contradicts with the
UNIX philosophy of modularity. While I can replace almost every part of my
operating system, I cannot do that with the file picker.
Therefore, I am suggesting a standard for calling a default or a user chosen
file picker by a standard command. For example:
* Show a file picker with applied filters:
* `xdg-filepicker --mime text/plain` or `xdg-filepicker -m text/plain`
* `xdg-filepicker --extension *.txt` or `xdg-filepicker -e *.txt`
* Allow selecting multiple files:
* `xdg-filepicker --multi`
These commands would return the list of paths to the chosen files. For example:
```
$ xdg-filepicker --multi # File picker with multi select and no filters
applied opens
/home/user/Documents/lorem_ipsum.txt # After selecting the files in file
picker,
/home/user/Documents/photo.jpg # the command returns file list to the
standard output
```
I do not know what would be the best approach for setting the file picker. I
think that there could alternatively be an environmental variable like
`XDG_FILE_PICKER`. There are also a few more things to consider, such as
backward compatibility and extensibility. As for extensibility, emacs with GUI
shows a hint at the bottom of a GTK file dialog and Libreoffice shows checkbox
for opening in read-only mode and choosing file version.
Regards,
Cezary Drożak
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