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Bug 687173 - Styles should be able to override/reimplement GtkFileChooserDialog
Styles should be able to override/reimplement GtkFileChooserDialog
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 650780
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFileChooser
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
Federico Mena Quintero
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-30 05:08 UTC by Timothy Pearson
Modified: 2012-10-31 11:03 UTC
See Also:
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Description Timothy Pearson 2012-10-30 05:08:28 UTC 
GTK styles should be able to override/reimplement the standard GtkFileChooserDialog in order to provide a native file open/save dialog in non-Gnome desktop environments.  This could be accomplished with open/save hooks that could be overridden, similar to Qt4.

See http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/QFileDialog.html, section "How to use the Qt file dialog instead of the native one" for an example implementation API from Qt4.

This is an often-requested feature due to the stark contrast between the Gnome open/save dialogs and those provided by other desktop environments.  The difference tends to confuse users and makes user training more difficult.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2012-10-31 11:03:06 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 650780 ***