GTK+ File Chooser Dialog

The primary user interface for selecting files

• File Open
• File Save

Applications in Ubuntu / Mint call the GTK+ File Chooser Dialog for this purpose.

• GTK+ file chooser

Which includes

• GtkFileChooser interface
• GtkFileChooserDialog

The basic elements of GtkFileSelection widget are:

1. A drop-down menu to select parent directories of the current directory
2. list of subdirectories of the current directory
3. A list of files in the current directory
4. An entry to type in the name of the file to load or save
5. Optionally, a set of buttons to create new directories and to rename or delete files

customize and configure

vi /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

/home/nicolep/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini

As people already said here, you can set StartupMode=cwd in ~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini. This file exists already, if it is GTK+2, but I am not sure if your screenshot shows GTK+3.

In this case insert this line into your ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:

gtk-recent-files-enabled=false

If you want "/" to appear as first view, you need to chdir / before starting the application.

startup mode

In ~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini

change

   StartupMode=recent

to

   StartupMode=cwd

"recent" and "cwd" are the choices available to the user. An app developer can set an arbitrary start up folder by calling gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder ().

places

vi ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks

In Mint 18.3 To customize the list of "Places" that appears in the dialog you can edit the bookmarks file.

If you're using PCManFM and you click BOOKMARKS -> Add to Bookmarks an entry will be created in the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks file

Also in PCManFM you can right-click on a bookmark and remove it, thus resulting in the entry being removed from the bookmarks file as well.

White Space is handled like this in the text file: "My Folder"

file:///office/My%20Folder My%20Folder

misc

GIMP (GTK+ 2)

For GTK+ dialog, the location bar will not appear while viewing "Recently Used" in the file chooser. In this view, even Ctrl+L shortcut keys will not work.

KGtk is the hackish way to use KDE dialogs in GTK+ applications.

• ref: https://superuser.com/questions/944119/replace-gtk-file-dialog-with-alternative

 

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references

• A new file selector for GTK+ by Owen Taylor
• Gtk 3.0, Interfaces, Gtk.FileChooser
• GNOME GtkFileChooser, File chooser interface used by GtkFileChooserWidget and GtkFileChooserDialog
• GNOME GtkSettings