Bug 504342

Summary: New File Dialog : Cumbersome way to select target directory
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: Bart De Ceulaer <bart.de_ceulaer>
Component: Open/save dialogsAssignee: KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 6.14.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504339
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: screenshot new File Dialog
SBfAc.png

Description Bart De Ceulaer 2025-05-16 15:34:39 UTC
In the new File Dialog for saving a file, you can only directly specify the name, but not the target directory : you have to go to a new target directory by clicking in the tree, which could be many clicks away if your are for instance on another drive.
In the old File Dialog, you could just paste a string in the "target directory" field.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-05-16 16:01:14 UTC
What do you mean by "the new file dialog"? Can you attach a screenshot of what it looks like? I wonder if you're actually using the GNOME dialog due to a system misconfiguration, packaging problem, or app update.
Comment 2 Bart De Ceulaer 2025-05-16 17:14:25 UTC
Probably in the latest Opensuse update, there was a misconfiguration or wrong packaging which causes Firefox and Brave to use Gnome File Dialogs instead of KDE Dialogs.
So this is not related to frameworks-kio.
Ticket is closed
Comment 3 Bart De Ceulaer 2025-05-16 17:17:44 UTC
Created attachment 181392 [details]
screenshot new File Dialog

Hello Graham,

Thanks for your support :-)

In "attachment 1 [details]" you can find a screenshot of the File Dialog I'm getting when I save a file 
from Firefox since the latest update on my Opensuse desktop computer, (which included 
the KDE Frameworks 6.14.0).

And indeed when I look on Google Images for "Gnome File Dialog, I get similar images 
(see attachment 2 [details]), so this is the Gnome File Dialog.

I also get this dialog with the Brave browser, but ... with the Falkon browser I correct;y get 
the KDE File Dialog (to be expected since Falkon is from KDE).

So maybe - as you wrote - there was a problem with the latest Opensuse packaging, I'll 
wait for the next update, and eventually report the problem to Opensuse.

I was mislead by the article https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-14-revamps-new-files-dialog-expands-krunner-unit-conversion[1], which talks about a revamped File Dialog 
in KDE Frameworks 6.14, so I assumed that that was what I experienced.

I closed both tickets 504339[2] and 504342[3] with a comment and "not a bug".

kind regards,

Bart De Ceulaer

On vrijdag 16 mei 2025 18:01:14 Midden-Europese zomertijd you wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
> 
> Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CC|                            |nate@kde.org
>          Resolution|---                         |WAITINGFORINFO
>            See Also|                            |https://bugs.kde.org/show_b
>                    |                            |ug.cgi?id=504339
> 
>              Status|REPORTED                    |NEEDSINFO
> 
> --- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> ---
> What do you mean by "the new file dialog"? Can you attach a screenshot of
> what it looks like? I wonder if you're actually using the GNOME dialog due
> to a system misconfiguration, packaging problem, or app update.



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[1] https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-14-revamps-new-files-dialog-expands-krunner-unit-conversion
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504339
[3] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
Comment 4 Bart De Ceulaer 2025-05-16 17:17:44 UTC
Created attachment 181393 [details]
SBfAc.png
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-05-16 17:21:31 UTC
Yep, that's the GNOME dialog indeed.

Something seems to have caused Firefox to either use the GNOME desktop portal, or not use a desktop portal at all for its file dialogs, therefore falling back to the GNOME one that it used by default.

Definitely something to bring up with the openSUSE packagers.