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Feature request: Linux native file choosers #5122

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@GKFX

Linux native file dialogs are currently disabled by default. As I understand it, this was because they weren't very nice a few years back and so the JFileChooser was a safer choice. However, Linux has moved on, and they now look very nice,
screenshot from 2017-06-10 18-13-27
certainly much better than JFileChooser, which has layout issues, crude folder navigation, no access to user's favorite/often used folders, and so on.
screenshot from 2017-06-10 18-15-39

So please can you change the Linux default?

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