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Re: gtk file picker and firefox



kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> writes:

> FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason
> being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove
> away due to this inefficient filepicker.

It certainly is a shame. But it wouldn't be if you could simply theme
the file picker to be nicer.

> I saw your link and read the complete thread, it says to edit the file
> called nsFilePicker.js . On my machine (Debian Sid) this file is
> available as
>
> /usr/lib/firefox/components/nsFilePicker.js
>
> So does this mean only root can change this? or Is there a way to
> change the filepicker based on user configurations without any root
> permissions?

Install it in a chroot environment in your homedir?

Maybe use unionfs (or some other COW) to copy over the top of the
existing install?


Nic



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