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A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal
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copy paste full file path? #26

Closed deskoop closed 8 months ago

deskoop commented 8 months ago

Hi, I am sorry if this does not belong here, I am not sure where to ask about this and which part of my system is responsible.

Some time ago, I used to make extensive use of copy/paste full path+filename both to open and to save files. For example, let's imagine I have MyApplication running and I need to open my file which is in /path/to/my/file.ext So what I did was go to my file browser, copy the exact path+filename of the file, then go back to MyApplication and simply paste the path+filename into the Open dialog, then press enter. Similarly, when I wanted to save any file in any location on my hard drive I just pasted the full path+filename into the Save As dialog.

However, for some reason, this does not work anymore. I don't know what changed. As it is right now, I have to do 2 separate things each time: 1) paste the path into the path bar image

2) paste the file name into the file name text box.

If I try to do the 'old way' (pasting the full path+filename into the file name directly into the text box), nothing happens (and the dialog is closed, without any warning or message).

This took away one of the happiest moments of my workflow: just copy and paste the full path+filename and you're good to go. And now it turned into a longer, two steps for such a simple task as opening or saving a file.

Is this related to the file dialog here? or where can I look for the problem? any suggestions are welcome :)

My system Lubuntu Desktop: LXQt 1.4.0 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

stefonarch commented 8 months ago

If that ever worked it was bug IMO. It says: "Filename" at the bottom and not "Path to your file".

Using a path works very fine in terminal windows: application /path/to/file.extension, consider to use that.

tsujan commented 8 months ago

However, for some reason, this does not work anymore.

Most probably, you used GTK file dialog with a GTK app. With xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt, you use LXQt file dialog, which distinguishes between paths and filenames.

deskoop commented 8 months ago

@stefonarch Thanks for letting me know what the dialog says!! I am grateful for finding someone who can read. I will certainly not consider using the terminal windows: it will take longer than the 2-steps procedure I just explained... but again, you were busy telling other people what the dialog says. Honestly, you could have just closed the issue without words and your contribution would be exactly the same.

@tsujan thanks for your comment, that is a good point.

And thanks everyone for your work on LXQt!!!