Bug 467460

Summary:	GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 fails to propagate the org.FreeDesktop.portal.FileChooser setting "current_folder"
Product:	[Plasma] xdg-desktop-portal-kde	Reporter:	kderemie
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	aleixpol, jgrulich, kde, kderemie, nate, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description kderemie 2023-03-16 20:21:31 UTC

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
2. Trigger the open file dialog for an application like Sublime Text which explicitly sets the folder the file picker should open to
3. The requested folder is ignored and the last opened directory is opened by default instead

OBSERVED RESULT
File picker always opens to the last opened folder

EXPECTED RESULT
File picker should open to the directory requested by the opening application

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 22.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The GTK file chooser is awful. I'd be sooo happy if this would work as expected so we could ditch GTK entirely.

Comment 1 kderemie 2023-03-21 22:10:15 UTC

Is there anything I can do to help move this issue forward?

Comment 2 David Redondo 2023-03-23 09:18:53 UTC

As far as I can see the openFile method does not have a current_folder option, only SaveFile(s)
https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser

Comment 3 kderemie 2023-03-23 19:56:53 UTC

(In reply to David Redondo from comment #2)
> As far as I can see the openFile method does not have a current_folder
> option, only SaveFile(s)
> https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.
> FileChooser

Thanks for diving into this David! I found a relevant issue here: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/874

If that's resolved in xdg-desktop-portal, is there additional work required to get KDE to be compatible with that change?

Comment 4 David Redondo 2023-03-24 07:54:46 UTC

Once it is acepted we would have to implement support of the option but it should be straight forward