Solved KDE file dialog for non-KDE applications

drr · Feb 14, 2022

Continuing from this post, are there KDE-Plasma users here who have managed to get non-KDE applications to use native KDE file dialog?

I can not do without Firefox and Libreoffice and both these applications currently use a different file dialog of its own. I have tried deskutils/plasma5-xdg-desktop-portal-kde in the past to make Firefox use KDE file dialog, without success.

drr · May 8, 2023

Firefox now uses KDE file dialog after changes suggested in this ArchWiki page; namely, setting widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.mime-handler and widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker to 1 in about:config, and installing deskutils/xdg-desktop-portal and deskutils/plasma5-xdg-desktop-portal-kde.

I still have not managed to get Libreoffice to use the KDE file dialog.

drr · Oct 22, 2024

drr said:
I still have not managed to get Libreoffice to use the KDE file dialog.

Just figured out that compiling editors/libreoffice with option KF5=on and setting the VCL plugin to 'kf5' should get KDE file dialog working in libreoffice.