Bug 337356

Summary:	better integration: native file dialogs and unified title/toolbar
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	RJVB <rjvbertin>
Component:	kdeui	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	minor	CC:	mk-lists, niederstrasser
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.12.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	MacPorts
OS:	macOS
URL:	https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=98053
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	patch to enable native filedialogs by default patch that unifies title and toolbar

Description RJVB 2014-07-11 11:01:45 UTC

KDE's own file dialogs aren't the most useful on OS X. For better integration with the rest of the OS and restore drag-and-drop functionality, they should default to "native".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open file dialog in an application like kate, e.g. to open a file

Actual Results:  
note how the dialog is different from OS X dialogs, how it doesn't provide easy access to different mounted volumes, the history nor the drag-and-drop facility that allows one to select a file or move to a folder by simply dropping one onto the dialog.


Expected Results:  
it'd be nice to have the things mentioned above as missing

just setting Native=true under [KFileDialog Settings] in kglobalrc leads to distorted file dialogs. The webpage given above lists a few patches that I implemented.

I'm throwing in the patch to unify title and toolbars.

Comment 1 RJVB 2014-07-11 11:02:26 UTC

Created attachment 87687 [details]
patch to enable native filedialogs by default

Comment 2 RJVB 2014-07-11 11:02:56 UTC

Created attachment 87688 [details]
patch that unifies title and toolbar

Comment 3 RJVB 2014-07-11 11:05:19 UTC

NB1: not all applications appear to honour the type of dialog; for example kdenlive will use a KDE file dialog when selecting the Add Clip function. And it's distorted in that case.

NB2: couldn't get the patches accepted for a Review Request because they're not git diff patches?!

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2014-07-11 11:37:27 UTC

TRUE -> true

If reviewboard did not work, you could also send a mail to kde-core-devel with a message there. On the other hand, we would prefer if someone of the KDE-on-Mac community with a KDE git developer account would simply commit those fixes after a review within the community, because the non-Mac developers cannot really decide if those integration patches are correct.

Comment 5 RJVB 2014-07-11 11:57:48 UTC

That latter options is indeed what I just suggested/asked on the kde-mac ML ...

Comment 6 Marko Käning 2014-07-12 10:00:37 UTC

I have posted this as an RR now [1].

[1] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119243/

Comment 7 Marko Käning 2014-07-12 10:56:57 UTC

The RR doesn't seem to solve the issue of distorted file dialogs...

Comment 8 Justin Zobel 2022-10-14 05:46:56 UTC

Thank you for reporting this bug in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported and confirmed, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "CONFIRMED" when replying. Thank you!