Thursday, October 27th, 2011
by Tavis J. Hampton
Earlier, 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 there it is, native KDE file dialog support by default.
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And no, I did not really save the weather page.
Installation
If you are running Kubuntu, just add this repository:
ppa:chromium-daily/dev
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.
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4 Comments
DarkDuck (@linuxnote) (@linuxnote)
October 27th, 2011
at 9:52am
KDE File Dialog Now in Chromium Dev Build #fb http://t.co/IwFwZK5y via @adibudeen
AC
November 6th, 2011
at 6:32am
But where’s the “HTML only” / “complete page” option?
Tavis J. Hampton
November 9th, 2011
at 8:35pm
@AC That’s something I didn’t even consider. Maybe you should let the developers know before the next stable version is released.
DarkDuck (@linuxnote) (@linuxnote) (@linuxnote)
January 11th, 2012
at 7:20am
#KDE File Dialog Now in #Chromium Dev Build http://t.co/IwFwZK5y via @adibudeen #fb