J, I am sure that others will correct me if I am wrong.
Point 1 - Whatever File Manager (File Picker, as you call it?) you choose to use, it is a program, a specific program and has nothing to do with what file management system of your current Desktop Environment as used by other programs (like Gedit) when opening or saving files. Point 2 - Usually when a person (or group of people) write a program that interacts with the file system, they use 'system calls' to that Desktop Environment to access the Desktop Environment's own file management libraries (my experience here is with Windows), and so I am guessing if a Linux programmer is writing a program, say a Text editor, they will call the current Linux Desktop Environment's file management libraries for opening and saving files. If the Desktop Environment is Gnome, then the file management libraries will present a "Gnome" look and feel for the file open/save interfaces. Where as when using XFCE, its Desktop Environment's file management libraries will be themed for the XFCE Desktop Environment. The same being true if you use the KDE desktop environment. This makes the developer's life a bit easy, they can just write a program that calls the Desktop Environment's file management libraries for file open/save routines, and they do not have to be concerned about knowing which Desktop Environment they are running in, and then keeping with the current Desktop Environment's theme, nor do they have to write their own code for opening and saving files, they simply call the Desktop Environment's file management libraries. While Gnome and XFCE use the GTK toolkit, these Desktop Environment's have developed different themes for their own Desktop Environment libraries. Point 3 - Sad news. Taking Point 1 and Point 2 into consideration, you are stuck with applications using whatever the Desktop Environment's look and feel for opening and closing flies. This is what the Desktop Environment is designed to do. To provide a consistent look and feel across all applications. Maybe you can find a Gnome Theme that alters the file open/close look and feel, learn how the theme achieves this then apply that part of the theme to a theme you write? I have not had much success with altering themes in Gnome, though I see other people are able to modify the theme in simple ways, but I have not seen any do this for file management look and feel. Hope my explanation is clear enough to understand and is a correct description of how programs call the Desktop Environment's libraries for consistent look and feel. George. On Saturday, 28-09-2024 at 00:01 J wrote: > Hello! > > So, is there a way to change the file picker in browsers? > > Recently i have switched from Gnome Files (Nautilus) to Thunar. > > Yes, i use Gnome. > > I have used the command > > xdg-mime default thunar.desktop inode/directory > > So. > > $ xdg-mime query default inode/directory > thunar.desktop > > But then i noticed that file opener in browsers (Firefox-stable and Chrome) > both are "Gnomish". I thought that it is Nautilus. > > I went full speed and added > > xdg-mime default thunar.desktop x-directory/normal > > xdg-mime default thunar.desktop inode/directory > > to > > /.config/mimeapps.list > > .local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache > > .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list > > /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list > > Then i understood that it is not Nautilus, but Gtk File chooser. > > Now i wonder if there is a way to use "native" Thunar and not this GTK file > chooser? > > I tried > > GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 google-chrome-stable > > No help. > > I tried for Firefox > > ui.allow_platform_file_picker=true > > widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal=true > > in > *about:config * > (i did not know how to make it correctly so it looks like this) > > https://i.ibb.co/6NfVH3X/Screenshot-from-2024-09-26-21-48-19.png > > https://i.ibb.co/WsHwzCJ/Screenshot-from-2024-09-26-21-47-21.png > [image: Image] <https://ibb.co/mSM19LN> [image: Image] > <https://ibb.co/3kTqFKZ> > Also no help. > > I read there is some bug with it in FF, but what about Chrome then? > > I use Firefox-stable as a main browser. > > Found this solution but dont know how to implement it here > > https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/discussions/4988 > > Any ideas? >
