Bug#274577: libgtk2.0-0: file dialog does not allow to open directories such as ~dir

[Jens Seidel]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:59:19PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le samedi 02 octobre 2004 à 21:17 +0200, Jens Seidel a écrit :
> 
> > I noticed that gvim doesn't allow me to select a directory starting with ~.
> > I obtain the message "Folder unreadable: success" in the dialog when I
> > try it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Where is the problem with gtk+ ? No problem have been reported with
> other apps, could you provide more details ? I would say that's a gvim
> problem ...

You're right. It seems to work in a few Gnome applications such as gedit
but fails at least in gvim (6.3-013+2) and gimp (2.0.4-1).

The affected file dialog has three large buttons on the left hand side
(Home, Desktop, Documents) whereas gedit's dialog contains only a smaller
listview (Home, Desktop, Filesystem).

It's very simple to reproduce:

cd /tmp
mkdir \~dir
echo hello > ~dir/file
gimp &

Now try to open ~dir/file. It's impossible!

Jens