• smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    You could definitely have raised a bug report in the time it took you to make this

        • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          I don’t know if Firefox is at fault. It could be Firedragon (the fork I’m using), it could be any of the desktop portals messing things up (looking at you, xdg-desktop-portal-gtk), it could be Arch Linux due to how packagers package each portal, it could be that I stepped on a landmine by switching from Sway to Hyprland - this is when the problem first occurred.

          Firedragon’s (and the Firefox flatpak’s) output doesn’t say anything, nothing stands out in their logs, same goes for both Sway and Hyprland - for all I know XDG portals don’t even have standalone logs, they just dump error messages to stdout in my experience (which, again, have not been dumped).

          I could send bug reports to everyone, and get told “this isn’t our problem, write a bug report to ${OTHER_SOFTWARE}”. But then, which logs do I provide? All of them? Sure, I can gather up logs and non-existent messages from several pieces of software, one of them being a glorified API.

          It would have taken me a good hour to find the relevant data, find the correct places to write reports to, word things in a quasi-professional manner, all for a small chance for any of the developers of something to answer something that is not a variation of “can’t help you bro, your logs are anorexic”.

          So, after reminiscing the days of writing Windows registry keys and seeing no results (by writing XDP hints all over the system AND rebooting), I took 10 minutes to vent and make a meme - NoScript was intefering with imgflip, otherwise I would have needed 3.

          I could not, in fact, definitely have raised a bug report in the time it took me to make this.

        • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          As I said in another other comment to someone else, there is a quite noticeable difference in effort between typing sentences on imgflip and hunting bugs.

            • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              The only thing I can correctly report is that the termfilechooser portal causes something to die somewhere at some point - it never even worked in the first place.

              It’s above my 0$/h paygrade at this point

  • Knusper@feddit.de
    3·
    11 months ago

    Firefox is not a GTK application by the way. They use their own XUL/XPCOM framework and are in the long-running process of porting everything to HTML/JS/CSS.

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      There must be GTK somewhere, gtk3 is a dependency on Arch and the GTK_USE_PORTAL env var strongly suggests GTK has something to do with the file chooser. If they’re going to have to reimplement the latter, I hope it’s going to be less horrible than the GTK one but knowing Mozilla I’m not that faithful…

      • Knusper@feddit.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        It does use the GTK file-open dialog by default (although distributions can swap that out).

        It also takes inspiration from the GTK theme for drawing buttons and whatnot, so they fit into the OS. KDE generates a GTK theme, though, so that’s rarely a problem.

  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Addendum: I reinstalled the GTK portal because I was desperate, now I can’t even use that UX abomination because who the

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    knows

    (As it turns out, the cause was a previous attempt to get xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser to work - I’m just going to sneak this edit in here and go die in a corner or something)

      • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        It’s not even that, I wanted to try using Ranger as the file chooser because Dolphin would freeze up if it ended up in a tmpfs mount point… which I can deal with if the only alternative is the default GTK file chooser.

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Perhaps Plasma automatically sets the various enviornment variables to enable consistent themes? I haven’t used it in a while…

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      At the expense of missing what could potentially be a deadpan ironic comment, I would like to divert your attention to the name of the community this meme was posted on

  • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    My package manager has 400+ updates, but I can’t install them because some packages are conflicting, and I don’t have the willpower to untangle that mess.

    I use arch btw. I use the arch-derivative Manjaro, btw.

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      First time?

      jdk-openjdk vs jre-openjdk? archlinux.org mentions it, although the workaround it provides is fake news and also results in pacman complaining about conflicts.

      I just removed stuff, abused pacman --nodeps and prayed that my backups would be sufficient to restore my inevitable fuckup (no fuckup happened, somehow). Try that at your own risk though…

  • Matombo@feddit.de
    1·
    11 months ago

    Also why for fucks sake does firefox do it’s own mime type management and does not respect default applications set on system level!

  • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    11 months ago

    Had to nuke xdg-desktop-portal recently. AGAIN. Because they keep introducing a regression that causes all the GTK apps to run at a snails pace and totally ruins the desktop experience. I HATE xdg-desktop-portal. This has happened at least twice before. They can’t seem to get their shit together. I wish I could just be rid of it entirely.

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      While it is causing me a ton of headaches, I’m thankful that it gives the user a choice of desktop utilities… I just wish I didn’t have to hunt env variables and config files that may or may not be completely ignored.

  • happyhippo@feddit.it
    11·
    11 months ago

    I love Firefox and it’s my main browser on laptop and mobile.

    But as a KDE user, seriously, fuck it. It’s a mess.

  • hottari@lemmy.ml
    02·
    11 months ago

    Join the Chromium monopoly it is the superior browser. Aside from not having tab containers, it beats Firefox is almost every other way.