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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306742 Archived-At: Rahguzar wrote: > Hi All, > During the past few weeks, I have been working on an Emacs based > implementation of filechooser backend of `xdg-desktop-portal`. It is > very rough around the edges but I have working version at > https://codeberg.org/rahguzar/filechooser. Thanks! This is great news for us EXWM users. My 2c below: > The choices combo boxes are not implemented. I don't what would be a > good interface for them (suggestions welcome) and I have in my > (limited) experience. Ideas: You could ask for it sequentially before or after specifying the file name. Or in case of choosing a file extension, you could check the extension in the user input and ask the user to confirm. > In my opinion minor compared to these is the fact the filechooser > dialogues are not modal, i.e. you can still freely interact with the > window that sent the file selection request. Perhaps you could temporarily rebind 'C-x o', 'mouse-1' etc. --