22 May
2024
22 May
'24
12:27 a.m.
On 2024-05-21 18:58:50 Darrell Anderson via tde-devels wrote:
On 5/21/24 6:28 PM, J Leslie Turriff via tde-devels
wrote:
Oh, okay; I was thinking of something entirely different. :-)
Is the XDG file picker the thing that pops up
that ugly password prompt
for privileged commands? KDE3 and Trinity have a nicer one built in:
just edit the application icon and in the Application tab, Advanced
option, activate Run as a different user without a username (which
defaults to root). Some (e.g. Konqueror - File Manager - Super User
Mode) already have it set.
By file picker I am referring to the dialog that launches inside
software when the user selects the File->Open or File->Save menu options.
Originally the XDG Desktop Portal was designed to accommodate sandboxed
environments such as flatpak. The idea grew such that when using a
preferred DE but an app is based on a different tool set, the native DE
file picker can be used. For example, in KDE I can use a GTK tool such
as Firefox, but the KDE file picker appears instead of the GTK file picker.
TDE does not yet have this support but most of the other DEs do. I think
even LXQt has support.
Much like Yosemite Same hates that rabbit, I hate the GTK file picker.
I have to agree with you. I only interact with it via Firefox, but it's so
non-intuitive.
Leslie
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Platform: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.1.2
tde-config: 1.0