I really hope I am wrong, and there is a way to change the theme for "file management" dialog boxes. Does any know of any DE's in which this can be done?
George. On Saturday, 28-09-2024 at 09:29 George at Clug wrote: On Saturday, 28-09-2024 at 08:59 J wrote: > Thanks for your reply! But i am sorry, you completely missed the point. I > know what a file manager is. > > "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?" > > The question was if there is a way to make *browsers *use default *file > manager *and *not *the *GTK file chooser*? No, there is no way to "make *browsers *use default *file manager*". The File Manager is just a program, not something that a web Browser can call to manage files. > > Or at least where are the GTK file chooser configs to make changes to it? A very clever person could take the source code of the web browser and write their own file open/save code. That is theoretically speaking, but practically I cannot see anyone doing this. Web Browsers are designed to use the system calls of the Desktop Environment and Desktop environments are designed to enforce certain look and feel constraints. Or a very clever person could take the source code of Gnome and rewrite it to do whatever they want. Again theoretically speaking, but practically I cannot see anyone doing this. Desktop Environments are specifically written in a way to provide a certain look and feel, and sadly not to give users a way to change this. I recommend to accept this as just the way it is. Way too much effort for something that is not easily attainable. I do not really like the way KDE presents the file system to the user, but I realise the only way I can change this is to use a different Desktop Environment, or just accept the way KDE presents it. I am hopeful that someone knows how to use themes to give a different look and feel to file management (e.g. Open/Save files dialog boxes), but I have yet to find any information of people having achieved this. George. > > 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. > > >
