Experimental > Native File Dialog does nothing on Ubuntu Linux

[ericoporto]

When I select Native File Dialog I expect the application to use a file opener from my system. It instead opens a file open dialog rendered in aseprite instead of a Gtk3+ Window or something more native to Linux.

Aseprite and System version

• Aseprite version: 1.2.9
• System: Ubuntu 16.04 .5 LTS + Steam

[dacap]

At the moment the gtk+ file selector is disabled because it creates a hard dependency with gtk+ and gdk libraries. A possible solution in the future would be load gtk+ functions dynamically.

[ericoporto]

I haven't tested and the commit dates scare me, but have you seem this project ?

[dacap]

I see that that project has the same issue: it depends directly on the gtk header files/library.

[ericoporto]

I looked on how chromium did it. But it's too complicated... Steam apparently has the same issue... The easiest way I can think of, but it would still be a lot of work, would be decoupling this in your own lib (that would depend on gtk), and have that built separately and dynamically link that... I didn't knew the difficulty of the task.

[buckle2000]

I found a solution some applications use. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity

[Anuken]

Could using the same approach as tinyfiledialogs be an option? It appears to use zenity / matedialog / kdialog for the file chooser - these are run from the command-line and don't require any additional dependencies.

[ericoporto]

there is also https://github.com/samhocevar/portable-file-dialogs