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Well GTK sucks almost as much as Wayland, so they're welcome to each other. The GTK file picker has to be most annoying thing. It has numerous horrible bugs that are if ignored for 5+ years. You cant choose any view except filename list, so if you work with media and are used to big thumbnails, forget Gnome.

And X11 now fixed the couple of issues that Wayland people complained about most.

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The funny thing about picker is that GTK supports alternative filepickers on flatpak offically, but non-flatpak is considered an "debug feature" [1]

1: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4829

Try to understand what you comment on.

Users blindly used this env var and break their system. Inside flatpak it's required to work but outside it could be running in a process that shouldn't be using the portal for various features.

There are also various xdg-desktop-portal bugs that need to be fixed there first. Like some portals fail on the host.

Because it is a debug feature, that environment variable affects far more than the file chooser.

The actual problem is that it is not part of the FileChooserNative API to use the XDG Portal API outside of Flatpak. I just opened an issue for this specific usecase: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5026

>The way to do that is to install your applications as flatpaks.

Yes absolutely helpful as always

> And X11 now fixed the couple of issues that Wayland people complained about most.

No, they did not. The tearing is still there.

Haven't seen tearing in X11 for years

Well, I always had extremely bad tearing with X11 and Intel, AMD GPUs, and no issues with Wayland.

Try a monitor in rotated (vertical) mode.

https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_fix_screen_tearing

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