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16 June 2009

Two wishes for Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

The KDE Desktop people and the GNOME Desktop people are joining forces this year for the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. I have two requests which I am sure won't get addressed, but here we go anyways :)

1. Let the file picker dialog (Open, Save, and Save as) for any application bring up the DE file picker, not the file picker based on that toolkit. For example, if I use Handbrake (a GTK app), I want the file picker to use my KDE file picker on my KDE system. GNOME users should get their native file picker also when using the great KDE apps available to them.

2. Let 'single-click to open' or 'double-click to open' work (and be set) across desktops. In my KDE 4.2.4 (Debian Sid) I very much like my single-click policy, but when I use a Gnome app I have to double-click every file and folder to navigate anywhere (usually in relation to Wish 1, above). I am guessing there is a way to set GNOME to single-click but likely I would need to fully install GNOME in order to find the one-of-a-million config apps which does this.

What are your wishes for the joint desktop summit, my readers?

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