Firefox open / save dialog is a pain for kde users

I've assigned to me since I'll work on this if I get a chance, but currently I'm a bit busy with final exmas so won't be for a while. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Created specification page here:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/firefox-kde-support

Needs to be fleshed out.

This might help with the open-save dialogs: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=110353

Great, thanks! I still think it would be nice to have this as a package -- once I've finished exams...

I would love to see this get fleshed out into a package for KDE users!
The relevant posts from the ubuntuforums.org link are

Open/Save file dialogs:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=614697&postcount=1

KDE print dialog:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1107082&postcount=25

I think this would really be beneficial to KDE users.

Adding "FILEPICKER_CONTRACTID" to /usr/lib/firefox/components/nsFilePicker.js as described in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=110353 is quite some pain, since it has to be done every time Firefox gets updated.

The preferable solution would be to supply a Firefox-KDE-integration-package as supposed, or at least putting nsFilePicker.js under /etc/firefox/, so that user-made changes won't get wasted after each update.

Btw, in Firefox 1.0.x one could "dpkg-reconfigure firefox" to manually update the Firefox Chrome Registry to enable changes made in nsFilePicker.js, which unfortunately doesn't work for Firefox 1.5.x anymore :-(

Anything said applies to Thunderbird also (except for different directories of course).

The proper way to do that is through about:config not by editing any file, as described here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1447514&postcount=32

Yet, that is the native XUL filedialog of Firefox, nothing to do with the powerful file dialog of KDE.

Hi Robert,

are you working on this? What is your plan?

For Dapper, there was a spec about Gnome/Firefox integration [1]. It seems they fixed most of the issues. However, since I am using KDE, I still get "less" as the first option to open text files (sigh). I haven't found a work-around for this issue in particular.

[1] https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/default-applications-firefox

Maybe the Kubuntu Team should be added to this bug report?

Any chances that this will be done for Edgy or Edgy+1 ?

Hi guys,

Sorry but I got rather distracted over the summer and haven't looked at it yet. I believe Edgy has been frozen which means any work would have to go into Edgy+1. I'm now working full time and not sure whether I will find the time to work on it. If anyone else is willing to take over there would be a much better chance of seeing this completed!

Apologies.

Robert

I have put spec page to wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KubuntuFirefox

Please feel free to contribute your problems, ideas, solutions. I hope we will have enough interest at UDS MtView to discuss and define roadmap for Feisty.

Changed to kubuntu-meta. I beleive that this is what the kubuntu-firefox-intergration is supposed to fix in feisty. But either way i think this is more of a kde issue than firefox.

unassigning robert, as he doesnt seem to be working on this.

presumably this is a k-d-s change. There are various packages that already do this, I think.

Since Firefox 2.0, adding "ui.allow_platform_file_picker" set to "false" in "about:config", provides a file saving dialog that should be more convenient for KDE users. AFAIK, adding "FILEPICKER_CONTRACTID" to /usr/lib/firefox/components/nsFilePicker.js doesn't work anymore.

ui.allow_platform_file_picker set to false is really much better! It provides firefox dialog (much more similar to kde) instead of gnome/gtk one.

I think we should look into additing this to k-d-s for gutsy - if not possible, we may consider other options (firefox-themes-kubuntu or firefox-kde package)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/49568 too

Subscribing as I'd love to see better Firefox integration with KDE/QT

Subscribing as well.
I was surprised to find the Gnome-centrism of Firefox which advertises as open and standard compliant.
IMHO it is a big drawback in achieving the goal of taking the significant cut of the market share.

Another possible solution:

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36077

This is firefox with the REAL kde file dialog:

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=36077&file1=36077-1.png&file2=36077-2.png&file3=36077-3.png&name=KGtk+%28Use+KDE+Dialogs+in+Gtk+Apps%29

Subscribing, because integration of firefox (and thunderbird) in KDE still needs a lot of manual interaction in Hardy.
Here's the current situation on a fresh Kubuntu Hardy install:

- The following actions open a plain file open dialog instead of having (a) reasonable KDE defaults, or (b) offer KDE's application chooser (which presents apps in the start menu)

1) new file associations
2) clicking on a "mailto:" link
3) Choose "open containing folder" in FF's download window

This is quite ugly, because most users have no idea which executable to point firefox to (and I also have to open a commandline and do a "which xxx" everytime)

Bouncing back to firefox source package. It's not Kubuntu's mission to make firefox cross-desktop using bloody hacks and workarounds.

there surely is a bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org about better kde integration (file dialog). Who finds the bug first?

Perhaps https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140751 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296443 ?

i took the fileticker sub-bug from the META kde integration bug you provided. Its wont fixed for now. But most likely we can resurrect that once firefox supports QT ... which might happen in 3.1. when that happens remember us to reconsider this. thanks.

Looks like suse is working on this:

http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/FirefoxIntegration

If you're running karmic you can install the suse one via ppa sources. Working great for me.

https://launchpad.net/~debfx/+archive/firefox-kde

Just make sure to install kmozillahelper too

#27 works great. Any chance for this getting into main repository?