What software have you found particularly frustrating or difficult to configure on Linux?

  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    XDG portal filechooser for Firefox: the KDE implementation uses Dolphin, which is full of features and I use most of them; the default GTK one is mildly infuriating to use and looks ugly too, but getting the browser to use the portal I want was a nightmare - especially since GTK discontinued the GTK_USE_PORTAL envvar.
    The related Firefox config entries make no sense either.

    • projectmoon@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Can you explain a bit more about this and how to configure it? When I use FF on gnome, the save dialogue just looks like other dialogues?

      • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        I think GNOME's filechooser is the GTK one (never used it so I'm not sure), mine looks like this:

        *removed externally hosted image*

        It's entirely possible that Firefox changed and now uses XDG portals by default, I configured it like this a long time ago.

        As for how to configure it, I honestly don't know.
        It was a combination of messing with widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal on about:config, and changing XDG envvars and dotfiles; both by following several conflicting Reddit and bbs.archlinux.org posts.