Google Chrome to Get KDE File Dialog Support
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
by Tavis J. Hampton
This news should make KDE users happy. One of the issues with using any non-KDE apps with KDE is that you often get stuck with a GTK file dialog. In my opinion, the GTK file picker just does not measure up to the KDE one. A while back, someone added support for Mozilla Firefox, but Google Chrome / Chromium users still had to endure the GTK dialog.
Well, soon, the agony will be over, at least, it would seem so. According to a bug report on the Chromium website, the developers just added KDialog support a week ago. It will, of course, take time to make its way into a stable release, but the news is promising, nonetheless.
Ideally, we would have full KDE integration (i.e. Qt-based Chromium), but that will probably never happen. Some time ago, Nokia was working on a Qt Firefox, but that obviously never fully materialized. A better solution would probably be for someone to develop a new browser that uses Chrome’s version of Webkit and its V8 Javascript engine. Adding support for Chrome extensions would be nice too. OK, now I am just getting greedy. To the developers who added the KDialog support: thanks!
About the author: Tavis J. Hampton is a librarian and freelance writer from Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an avid user of free and open source software and strongly believes that software and knowledge should be free and accessible to all people. He enjoys reading, writing, teaching, spending time with his family, and playing with gadgets. Read more from this authorRelated posts:
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6 Comments
darkduck
September 27th, 2011
at 9:42am
>This news should make KDE users happy.
Yes! I love this idea! 2 my favourite products (KDE and Chrome) get closer to each other!
Tavis J. Hampton
September 27th, 2011
at 1:33pm
They are my favorites as well. I am tempted to get a developer build as soon as one is available.
KDE File Dialog Now in Chromium Dev Build | TavisOnline.com
October 27th, 2011
at 9:24am
[...] by Tavis J. Hampton TweetEarlier, I reported that Google Chrome / Chromium would soon have KDE file dialogs for saving and opening files. This morning I installed a development build of Chromium 16, and [...]
Georg Kovalcik
December 22nd, 2011
at 4:19am
the drawback is that kdialog does not offer the option “save complete webpage” it always just saves the html
Tavis J. Hampton
December 22nd, 2011
at 7:14am
@Georg This is true, but for me personally, I can’t even remember the last time I’ve wanted to save an entire webpage. In most cases, I save images or package downloads. I suspect that is the same for most people. Still, I hope they do include that feature in future releases.
Steve Kroon
January 11th, 2012
at 5:28am
The missing “save as complete webpage” option is a real pain. Now to save a page I must open firefox, then load and save the page there. Very disappointed by this regression.