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raul_l

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From: Amsterdam

Registered: 2014-11-04

Posts: 58

In KDE, Firefox not using dolphin for dialog windows

When I click, e.g., Open File in Firefox, it opens what looks like Nautilus instead of Dolphin. This is strange because I don't have Nautilus installed. How can I set dolphin as the default file manager in all contexts? I already have this:

$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory
org.kde.dolphin.desktop

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Raul Laasner

mareex

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From: Oldenburg, Germany

Registered: 2014-08-27

Posts: 28

Re: In KDE, Firefox not using dolphin for dialog windows

I think this is impossible with the standard firefox package.
As far as I know there exists no common API for file dialogs. So an
application has to support a file dialog directly instead of using such an API.
And vanilla firefox does not support dolphin file dialogs.

Have a look at:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fire … -opensuse/

It contains OpenSuse patches in order to utilize dolphin file dialogs and has some nice extra features (KParts).

Also have a look at the comments. Some users provide prebuilt packages if you do not want to build on your own.

edit: some more info

Last edited by mareex (2016-03-10 22:02:30)