Bug#399460: libgtk2.0-0: Obsolete Dialog "File open"

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 09:11:26PM +0100, Marek Straka wrote:
> Package: libgtk2.0-0
> Version: 2.8.20-3
> Severity: minor
> 
> Some gtk programs (only a few) use, for their "File Open" Dialog, window
> with 3 graphical Buttons - "Home", "Desktop", "Documents".
> The Problem is, that after clean installation of desktop (in my case
> xfce) is the last Button "Documents" not accessible. It delivers
> "Folder unreadable: No such file or directory".
> 
> The solution is to make a symbolic link ~/Documents pointing to your
> data. But it is not everyone known.
> 
> Where is exactly problem? Are this programs using some obsolete function
> for "File open" Dialog? Or should be by the installation of
> system or desktop always automatically created also directory ~/Documents?

Two ``problems'' here.. 
First the old file selector has a patch to add these bookmarks buttons for
Home, Desktop and Documents. Where the Documents directory doesn't necessarily
exist. 

Second these apps do indeed still use the old file selector, while most apps
use the new file chooser (gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new), so they get a somewhat
different widget then the other apps.

  Sjoerd
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