Upgraded to Fedora 41 but not getting new style open/save dialog boxes

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From the description of Gnome 47, it seems that we should have gotten a new style of open/save dialog boxes, but I’m still seeing the old ones.
What is wrong? Is there a setting that needs to be changed?

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In which apps do you see the old dialog boxes? Are gtk4 apps included?

Please post the output of head -3 /etc/os-release and that of gnome-shell --version.

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Output of head -3 /etc/os-release

NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="41 (Workstation Edition)"
RELEASE_TYPE=stable

Output of gnome-shell --version

GNOME Shell 47.1

I was thinking mostly of Libreoffice. This is evince’s open dialog:

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Well both LibreOffice and Evince are legacy gtk apps, hence the outdated looking dialogs.

Have a look at the same open dialog box in Text Editor for example. Do they look updated?

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This is Text Editor’s open dialog:

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Seems like the old one to me.

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That’s strange. It does look indeed like the old one. It should look like in GNOME 47 Release Notes.

Just to make sure, is it the same when you’re accessing the Move to… context menu option in Files?

How did you upgrade: via dnf or via GNOME Software? Did the system upgrade go through without errors?

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Move to dialog in Files is the new style.
I upgraded through Gnome Software.

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Just to rule out some misunderstanding, could you confirm that the Text Editor you have tested earlier is actually the default one that comes with GNOME?

Can you post the output of gnome-text-editor --version, as well as run gnome-text-editor from terminal or via Alt+F2?

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Output of gnome-text-editor --version

Text Editor 47.1 (47.1)

            GTK: 4.16.3 (Compiled against 4.16.3)
  GtkSourceView: 5.14.1 (Compiled against 5.14.1)

Copyright 2020-2022 Christian Hergert, et al.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Running gnome-text-editor is the same as opeing from the GUI.

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I can confirm your experience regarding the Text Editor.

I have two VMs at hand, both with Fedora 41:

  • Fedora Workstation 41, upgraded from Fedora 41 beta
  • Fedora Silverblue 41, installed the stable version.

While on Fedora Silverblue the dialog box from Text Editor (which comes preinstalled as Flatpak) is the new one, on Fedora Workstation it is still the previous one.

I am not sure if this is a bug, but it looks like one. You could report it either with Fedora in Bugzilla, or upstream, in GNOME’s issue tracker against Text Editor, since at this point it is only this gtk4 app not working as expected.