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

[ericoporto]

Great work! Thank you!

[dacap]

You're welcome @ericoporto! not the best implementation (which would be loading GTK dynamically or something like that), but it's the best we can do right now to support most Linux distributions. It uses the zenity command line utility, there are a couple of issues I'd like to see if I can implemented for zenity:

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity/-/issues/13 (so we can get the ID of the window and make the dialog a child of the main window)
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity/-/issues/27 (to improve the usability when another filter/file format is selected, the extension should be changed in the filename field)