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Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux by tadfisher on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:08PM (#29617800)
You get the DE's file chooser if you use xdg-desktop-portal, which has a KDE backend.
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Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux by simion314 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:20PM (#29617927)
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)
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Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux by shatteredgate on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:59AM (#29627034)
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.

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