SUMMARY It would be great if a quicklink / location created in dolphin was consistently available in open / save dialogues for as many programs as possible. It does not, for instance, in vscode. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. install vscode 2. open or save a file 3. note that any quick link locations (think MyProjects folder) are not present in the open / save dialogue OBSERVED RESULT The open/save dialogue is default locations only. EXPECTED RESULT Quick links created in Dolphin /qt to be present in the open / save dialogue. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Neon Latest ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Brought this up on neon.kde.org IRC great info I got from there: current the GTK and KDE/Qt file choosers use different data stores, so links you create in one will not be visible in the other. however this is actually something we might be able to fix in KDE-land we might be able to use the same datastore as the other one, especially if it uses a FreeDesktop standard.
Essentially, the Places Panel should use the same data store as the one uses in Nautilus and the GTK file pickers--at least for user-added places.
Neither KDE nor GNOME use the spec it seems, from[1]: $XDG_USER_DATA/shortcuts.xbel This file must be used for bookmarks to user-defined folders KIO and apps using it use ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel and the GTK file picker uses ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks. KIO already uses the XBEL format, so it might be a matter of renaming the file everywhere... [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-bookmark-spec/
... and that would solve half of the issue, for the other half, a bug report to GNOME devs would be needed :)