Re: [Evolution] FileChoosers broken

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 12:26 +0200, Max wrote:
> since a few weeks I am suffering from filechooser problems in evolution. 
> Mouse controls are pretty much gone. The only way to navigate to some 
> place is to enter the path into the adress field. If one happens to be 
> in a path above the desired path it is possible to navigate through the 
> folder entries. All buttons on top (including the "go one dir-level up" 
> button aren't working. Neither does the left list of locations. So if I 
> start the dialog in "recent documents" there is no working button to get 
> me to my home folder, I need to show the adress bar (LUCKILY the button 
> for this is working) and type /home. The very same filechooser dialog 
> works just fine in Gimp and other software. Additionally the icons in 
> the list on the left are all replaced by "file" icons, which is also not 
> happening in Gimp.

Gimp uses gtk2, Evolution uses gtk3.  It's a gtk3 bug.

The sidebar issue sounds like it's addressed by:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709522

I don't know what's up with the mouse navigation and other issues, but
Evolution has no control over it as the file chooser dialog is a stock
GTK+ widget.  Upgrading your gtk3 package to 3.10 or maybe downgrading
it to an older 3.8 release may help.

Matthew Barnes