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: > > 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. Oh, okay; I was thinking of something entirely different. :-) > > 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 -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
