# Need suggestions for documenting the GTK file chooser

**URL:** <https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-suggestions-for-documenting-the-gtk-file-chooser/1820>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 13, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-suggestions-for-documenting-the-gtk-file-chooser/1820 "2021-09-13T12:50:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-suggestions-for-documenting-the-gtk-file-chooser/1820/8 "2023-03-11T16:54:51Z")

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> [@emyoulation](#):
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> I know that the feature needs to be fully documented in its own wiki page. Nuggets of information are scattered, there is conflicting & incomplete introductory material in different places. It has to be consolidated and introduced in a structured way.

Have added a [bare reference style subsection in the Settings chapter](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#File_Chooser) as a starting point.

The File Chooser dialog capture for Fedora Linux and macOS have been posted in the following thread. But we still need the Windows version and for users of other Linux distributions to verify their variants do not have other significant differences.

> [@macOS and Windows "GTK File Chooser" dialog capture request](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/macos-and-windows-gtk-file-chooser-dialog-capture-request/3364):
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> Could a macOS and a Windows user post a window capture of the Import dialog (drilled down to the Example CSV and back up to the breadcrumb containing “example”) folder in a standard install of Gramps and with the Example folder clicked and the context menu showing? For Linux (Fedora), the final image (I will add the post-process hightlighting of the breadcrumbs and context menu option) looks like this: The File Chooser and path to example files (including Example.gramps and its media…

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