Hi.

I've been using KDE for a very long time now... and I adapted early on to the whole single-click thing. I don't mind it... in fact, I probably prefer it now after so many years.

But, one of the things I noticed about Neon in particular is that when I'm using a GTK app, like Firefox, and i have to browse to a file (say, I'm uploading a file, for example), while digging my way through folders, i have to double-click every folder to enter into it. Everywhere else on my system, a single click is required. On my Gentoo and and Debian systems, I seem to remember there being a GTK and/or GTK+ section that handled this... but I don't see it in Neon. I've looked all over. I've looked in firefox's about:config -- and I don't see anything that allows me to switch this to a single click.

Is there somewhere I can set this to a single-click -- ideally for all GTK apps, but at least for Firefox and Libre Office? I'm in firefox literally all day, and use Libre numerous times a day.. so it would be nice to get them to behave like the rest of the system.

Thanks!

I think I found an answer for this. After some updates, my firefox seems to be working right... I think. I'll play with that some more.

Libre was still a problem, but I found this package:
libreoffice-kde5

I installed that (making sure that Tools > Options > General > Open/Save Dialogs was had "Use LibreOffice dialogs" was unchecked).

Now it is working. I think I have what I need...

OK, now firefox is broken again.. needs a double-click when browsing the file system (like on a "save as"). I don't know if there is a way to force this behavior.. but I don't see it in Firefox's settings, and I don't see anything that looks like it is relevant in about:config. In my KDE settings, I look at my GTK style, but all that does is let you choose a theme... nothing about single/double click.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Firefox sometimes breaks its xdg-portal-whatever settings for this, so it is not anything related to Gtk or Plasma.

You probably need to go and adjust some settings via about:config

and set these from '2' to '1'
widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker
widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.mime-handler

Wow. That did it! I never would have guessed that those two items would have had anything to do with this... but it is fixed. How did you ever learn this?

Thanks.

I already knew that the xdg-desktop-portal things are what is used to allow applications to be able to use one's 'native' file picker, among other things, and at some point recently this broke for me as well. I think it came after a FF upgrade as opposed to a Plasma or Ubuntu related one, also.


But to be honest I can't remember exactly, and I am at a different computer and browser atm so I can't dig through my history, but I probably just searched for' kde firefox xdg portal' and filtered results to be no older than from this year 9for starters). This seems to pull up the same sort of results I found yesterday.

After a long time, one's bug searching skills tend to improve using Linux

Well, thanks for the help.

I'm not familiar with xdg, that is probably why that did not stand out to me. I'll keep that one in my back pocket...