Linux desktop environments
May. 15th, 2017 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcA difficulty I have with the desktop environments so pervading the mainstream Linux community is attempting to use some of their components outside those environments. For example, one has to recall that software is associated with KDE or whatever to guess which keystrokes may work for it. I am rarely sufficiently aware of the underlying toolkit.
I have had some success, though, thanks to the configurability offered by applications. For example, the file selection dialogs (for
Update: Following their usual pattern, Mozilla has since removed that useful configuration option.
I have had some success, though, thanks to the configurability offered by applications. For example, the file selection dialogs (for
save asand similar) in Firefox and LibreOffice were wholly unusable for me. Fortunately, in LibreOffice I find that the
Use LibreOffice dialogsoption fixes the issue, and with some prompt help from Mozilla's Firefox Support Forum I now find that its ui.allow_platform_file_picker = false option is equivalently helpful. I wonder if the problem is that GTK3 is expecting more of my
desktop environment(currently twm!) than it offers.
Update: Following their usual pattern, Mozilla has since removed that useful configuration option.
