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Idea #14301: KDE File Chooser in GTK apps on Kubuntu

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #3893: KGTK - KDE style for GTK dialos.
Written by dotancohen the 11 Oct 08 at 17:02. Related project: Kubuntu. Status: New
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While in general I do not mind using GTK application in Kubuntu, the one thing that makes using them difficult is the completely foreign GTK File Chooser. The KDE File Chooser be used instead. There are published workarounds for implementing this for most applications (Firefox and Open Office, for example) however they are beyond the scope of the naive just-use-it computer user.

To clarify: the File Chooser is the Open/Save dialog.

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retj wrote on the 12 Oct 08 at 03:28
Deeply needed.

LuisAugusto wrote on the 18 Oct 08 at 00:22
Agree +1

orion2000za wrote on the 21 Oct 08 at 12:18
Very good idea, hope it can be achieved

Hamra wrote on the 21 Oct 08 at 14:54
I very much agree on this, i use loads of GTK apps, and their file chooser is very annoying, i very much hope that this idea gets implemented :D

dotancohen wrote on the 21 Oct 08 at 16:21
This may be a good starting point:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36077

billie0w wrote on the 22 Oct 08 at 05:06
I agree.

mla wrote on the 1 Nov 08 at 06:12
KGTK (linked to by dotancohen) is very good and I highly recommend it. As an added bonus, its not only for GTK/GNOME apps, but for plain QT apps as well (like Scribus).

My suggestion for how this could be packaged: the kgtk package is a separate package that only provides the necessary libraries. To provide KDE menus in, say, Firefox, it would be necessary to install the kgtk-firefox package, which simply replaces the firefox.desktop file with one that replaces the line
Exec=firefox %u
with
Exec=kgtk2-wrapper firefox %u

It's simple and takes only five minutes to whip up a package; I should know, I've created kgtk-firefox, kgtk-thunderbird, and kgtk-scribus packages. Still need to create a kgtk-gimp package, but that's not hard.

xapient wrote on the 21 Jan 09 at 22:36
this is so needed...

imagine very old persons using kde with gimp and firefox... (because their sons installed it on their computer ^^)

it is confusing enough to switch to linux .. now they have to distinguish between two file dialogs..


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