KDE file-picker: yes you can

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Diorser
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KDE file-picker: yes you can

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To KDE users.
Old discussions raised in about 2005 or earlier in all forums, with a sample in this forum:
2007: How can I make Firefox use KDE file dialog boxes ?

Using the oldish poor featured gtk file-picker in a modern environment was hard to accept.
Even the possibility to use the qt file picker had been removed in Firefox ( ui.allow_platform_file_picker setting )
Now some news for KDE users: solution identified for Firefox > V64

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sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-kde
And launch firefox with 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=1' prefix

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GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 <path to firefox>/firefox
according to => How to execute Firefox with support for KDE filepicker

Tested / Approved.
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Re: KDE file-picker: yes you can

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Not a support issue. Moving to Firefox General.

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FF 92.0 - TB 78.13 - Mac OSX 10.13.6
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Re: KDE file-picker: yes you can

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Re: KDE file-picker: yes you can

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It has been a so loooong (to not say endless) discussion: about 15 years trying to identify who is responsible of what.
I think Mozilla position was: we do nothing; up to linux distributions or Firefox clones to solve it.
-> OpenSuse did it: Firefox patch and recompilation
-> Firefox clones like Waterfox and others did it (waterfox-kde).

Finally, something happened between Mozilla and KDE.
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