Post #506415
2026-02-24 13:30 UTC
I've started a small experiment to see how difficult it would be to port our file chooser dialogues to "native" versions (GtkFileChooserNative). This would mean you'd get your OS specific one when opening/saving a file, rather than the current GIMP default.
So far, I can see that most of our dialogues can be trivally ported (like the QBist plug-in, screenshot from Bruno Lopes).
Unfortunately, the main image export dialogue will require a full UI redesign. More to do after GIMP 3.2!
Replies (5)
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@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-24 23:41
@CmykStudent that would be a great feature!
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@olivenolje@mastodon.social 2026-02-24 23:58
@CmykStudent Amazing! I've been dreaming of this for so long 😍 Edit: Do you have an open PR or a link where we can follow your progress?
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@woltiv@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 03:32
@CmykStudent If it could work the way some apps like Firefox do that would be cool. Firefox has some setting (or env var, I forget) that says "please use the XDG portal" so on KDE desktops I get the KDE file chooser.
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@jpicture@mastodon.social 2026-02-28 20:47
@CmykStudent If this is implemented in future releases of GIMP, will it be possible to toggle between 'native' and 'GIMP'? I quite like my file chooser being themed!
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@computernut43@nexto.my 2026-03-15 02:46
@CmykStudent I like this