Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
by tadfisher on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:08PM
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You get the DE's file chooser if you use xdg-desktop-portal, which has a KDE backend.
Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
by simion314 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:20PM
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This is a recent development and that was designed to support GNOME/RedHat's flatpack , we should not get tricked to believe GNOME would have done this for helping someone else then themselves(do they support this in GTK2 apps too?, I really hate having different file choser with different sorting order of files and folders)
Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
by shatteredgate on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:59AM
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It probably cannot be done automatically in GTK2 apps because of API differences. GTK2 apps could call the portal API manually or put the functionality in another library.
>we should not get tricked to believe GNOME would have done this for helping someone else then themselves
Well they actually did, the flatpak API was designed to support multiple toolkits.
About easy of use I am sure that you are more productive with a professional toolkit like Qt and a mature language like c++ then fucking around with some broken/incomplete/buggy C# or Rust GTK bindings. Though I think you can do simple Python apps with GTK GUIs but for professional applications that are targeting crossplatform trust me Qt is the solution (I never seen a good GUI cross platform pro application , Linus Torvalds himself used Qt for his app because his Red Hat friends could not answer him on how to do some complex GUI in GTK)