luana, 1 year ago

@sonny XYZ will use Portal is does NOT feel like good news at all for me

lorendias, 1 year ago

@sonny Fantastic, Qt File Chooser is very friendly.

183231bcb, 1 year ago

@sonny When does Steam use a file-picker?

sonny, 1 year ago

@183231bcb

Add a library folder
Add a non steam game
Send a file to a friend (chat)

mossy, 1 year ago

@sonny now here's to hoping they do the same for notifications!

halfmexican, 1 year ago

@sonny this makes me so happy

thingsiplay, 1 year ago

@sonny Ohgod this would be awesome! I hate the Steam file picker, its just one of the worst.

hazelnot, 1 year ago

@sonny meh, I was gonna boost it but then you decided to turn it from a news post into a Flatpak/Gnome fanboy post :<

I do use Gnome and begrudgingly use Flatpak on my laptop (I use the AUR on my desktop) but that's just cause I like the alternatives even less

sonny, 1 year ago

@hazelnot interesting

nektworks, 1 year ago

@sonny Now they’re thinking with portals.

Nouvanity, 1 year ago

@sonny Hopefully this means SteamOS3s' desktop release could be coming along soon (as in valve soon)

bigattck, 1 year ago

@sonny "many things Flatpak and GNOME pioneered" Apple never heard such BS. Let me show you this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQocN_c2uLI

mattiasb, 1 year ago

@sonny does this enable tighter sandboxing? Like if they use the file portal maybe they only need access to their own stuff aside from that?

sonny, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

@mattiasb Not really, the home dir is already invisible to Flathub Steam.

Xtrems876, 1 year ago

@sonny I prefer the steam file picker to whatever gnome is doing :P what do you mean I have to search the web to find out that to be allowed to type in a path i have to do ctrl+L

andresdiaz, 1 year ago

@sonny

Does this mean that the default location for games will be ~/Games ?

sonny, 1 year ago

@andresdiaz no, that's just the folder I created and selected

carlschwan, 1 year ago

@sonny Unfortunately there are still so many apps not doing it (e.g. firefox) :( And this merge request to not allow forcing gtk to use the portals is not helping https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4829

sonny, 1 year ago

@carlschwan that's not what this MR does.

sonny, 1 year ago

@carlschwan I picked a random one and found this out

I use Flatpak for all my apps so I wouldn't have noticed.

I think all it takes is for the freedesktop community to help.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/126113#pullrequestreview-1405849913

krafting, 1 year ago

@sonny is this only for flatpak steam ?

sonny, 1 year ago

@krafting for everyone !

Even Sn*p ...

krafting, 1 year ago

@sonny Even Windoz ? (I don't use it, but might be interesting)

th3f4ult, 1 year ago

@sonny honestly I think I prefer the steam file picker, it has that 2000's vibe to it.

toast003, 1 year ago

@sonny FINALLYY

The native steam file picker sucks ass I am so glad it's gone now

picard, 1 year ago

@sonny Looks good over here on KDE too!

sonny, 1 year ago

@picard indeed, I said for everyone 😄

If anyone has in mind to try with Steam Beta, beware, there are a number of issues still.

picard, 1 year ago

@sonny Yeah my reply was probably redundant 😄 Just a very nice addition and got excited!

thingsiplay, 1 year ago

@sonny @picard Looks good to me, on my Linux system with Qtile and the Xfce tools as backbone (uses GTK I think).