Open File Dialog Box style on Linux

squeezelemon · March 15, 2026, 2:45pm

Hello
I have Kubuntu 24.04 + Shotcut 24.04.01

I am guessing Shotcut is programmed using Qt lib. I also use Qt lib in my projects.

I am guessing that Shotcut uses #include

and also
QFileDialog *aDlg;
aDlg->setOption(QFileDialog::DontUseNativeDialog, TRUE);

Can we get the ability to change that from a Config.ini file?
I would like to set it to FALSE so that the standard KDE dialogbox shows up instead of the Qt dialog boxes. There are small differences between them.

brian · March 15, 2026, 2:53pm

Your version of Shotcut is old and things have evolved in the last two years. You should try the latest version from our download site.

This is the current logic. If you are not using Snap, you will probably get the results you are looking for.

github.com/mltframework/shotcut

src/util.cpp

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          }
          
          QColorDialog::ColorDialogOptions Util::getColorDialogOptions()
          {
          #if defined(Q_OS_UNIX) && !defined(Q_OS_MAC)
              return QColorDialog::DontUseNativeDialog;
          #endif
              return QColorDialog::ColorDialogOptions();
          }
          
          QFileDialog::Options Util::getFileDialogOptions()
          {
          #if defined(Q_OS_UNIX) && !defined(Q_OS_MAC)
              if (qEnvironmentVariableIsSet("SNAP")) {
                  return QFileDialog::DontUseNativeDialog;
              }
          #endif
              return QFileDialog::Options();
          }
          
          bool Util::isMemoryLow()

This is unlikely to become a config option because we seem to be perpetually chasing system incompatibility problems that we have to work around.