A more modern file browser

[fadi]

Your file browser uses folder trees and is a little hard to navigate. Can you make it a little more modern and easier to navigate like this file browser from another office app.

[Woody44]

What's wrong with the fie browser in the upper image?

[bombadillo]

They use a more modern file browser if you're using some desktop environments, such as Gnome or Linux Mint

[martin-k]

So do we when you use Gnome.

[bernado82]

@fadi

I'm using KDE Plasma as my desktop environment and to have a better file selector in SoftMaker Office I add the environment variable "XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME" to the application launcher. Alternatively, you can launch TextMaker by typing the following command in a terminal:

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XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME textmaker24

Go to the options menu and check that the "Use system file dialogs" box is selected.

[bernado82]

Unfortunately, the command XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE does not work for my KDE desktop to get the REAL file's selector in all SoftMaker Office applications. If it worked, this is what it should look like on KDE Plasma?

[Leigh]

"Use system file dialogs" is greyed out for me
I guess this is because I am not using a Desktop, just i3 windows manager?

Any ideas how I can get the file browser other apps use (I think its Thunar based?)
I am on ArchLabs

[bernado82]

"Use system file dialogs" option is greyed out for me also if I launch any SoftMaker Office application WITHOUT using environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=gnome in parameters. KDE Plasma is my desktop on openSUSE Tumbleweed & Leap. I've used Manjaro a little bit in the past, mostly with KDE but also with XFCE as desktop environment. But with i3 as window manager, I don't know if you have the same possibilities of changing the file selector in SoftMaker Office.

[Leigh]

Thanks!

If I launch textmakernx with

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XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME textmakernx

then the option is not greyed out (I also tried XFCE and I3, but only GNOME worked)
Then I can set it to "Use system dialogs' and thereafter whenever I launch with

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XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME textmakernx

the option is remembered and I get my Thunar file browser

So, I will now include that in my i3 keybinds

Cheers, and Happy Xmas!