Bug 1255955

Summary: Cannot choose application by path in application chooser dialog
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thomas Meyer <thomas.mey>
Component: gtk3Assignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
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Version: 22CC: ccecchi, dgunchev, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, mclasen, pjasicek
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Description Thomas Meyer 2015-08-22 09:54:37 UTC
Description of problem:
I try to open a file called launch.rdp in firefox. Firefox show the file open dialog for type "rdp file".

I choose "open with" and then I'm not able to give the path of the application to open the file with. I wanted to open the file with the program "/usr/bin/xfreerdp", but there seems to be now way to specify the path of a locally installed application. Instead I only have to options to
"show all applications" or to "search a new application".

Please fix this horrific usability  error!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox 39.0.3

Comment 1 Jan Horak 2015-08-24 07:04:44 UTC
This is a dialog from GTK3 toolkit. Reassigning component. See: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkAppChooserDialog.html
Maybe there's a way to show "Browse" button, but from documentation I see none.

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2015-12-18 01:24:11 UTC
If you want to open a file from /usr/bin, use a filechooser. The appchooser is about choosing applications that are represented by desktop files.

Comment 3 Jan Horak 2015-12-18 09:28:44 UTC
Okay, so we should use filepicker, not the appchooser in Firefox?

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2015-12-21 16:48:56 UTC
No, you shouldn't. Choosing a binary in /usr/bin is not a great user experience.

Comment 5 Doncho Gunchev 2017-01-30 10:00:00 UTC
Choosing a binary like ~/bin/myscript.sh should not involve managing mime databases :(