While the File Manager (e.g. Nautilus or Nemo) can be replaced, I am still fighting with the default File Picker. It appears that there are multiple File Pickers, for instance, in Google Chrome I have another File Picker than in Inkscape:
Anyway, the file picker unfortunately is really awful. It is extremely slow, often freezes, the ordering is different from the File Manager, the path isn't displayed ([CTRL]+[L] doesn't work), thumbnails are not shown. It really makes it hard to work with, it is almost unusable for productive work.
Is there no way to use the File Manager as File Picker or to replace it?
The short answer is "yes" by replacing it with Zenity or XDG-desktop-portal but because some applications hardcode which file picker to choose into their software, it can make it tricky - or at least not all apps will use your replacement.
This will offer to create the file, since it will not exist in Zorin OS.
Content:
[FileChooser]
FileManager=nemo
Save the file - restart to test. Bear in mind, that with Gnomes tight integration and the sandboxing of xdg-desktop-portal, this may not work with all apllications.
Zorin Core users might also just use the older file picker: gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser gtk-file-chooser-backend "gtk2"
Yes, I use Nemo. I tried it, but at least for Google Chrome, Kicad, Inkscape and OpenSCAD it seems not to work, so I don't know if this setting is even active.
Always watch out for that list of packages under the "The following packages will be REMOVED". If it contains more than what you asked for, those may include necessary dependencies that can break other parts of the system.
