Re: Opening GtkDialog from gnome-shell

[segfault <segfault riseup net>]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Florian Müllner:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:24 PM, segfault <segfault riseup net> wrote:
> > In this design, to allow the user to specify keyfiles, there should a
> > button in the ShellMountPasswordDialog, which opens a file chooser
> > dialog when clicked. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any code in GNOME
> > Shell which uses a file chooser dialog, and I wasn't able to open a
> > GtkFileChooserDialog (or any other GtkWindow) in gnome-shell without
> > causing gnome-shell to crash.
>
> Yes, the window manager cannot open any windows that are handled by
> the window manager. In the context of GTK+, that means that you can
> only open GtkWindows of type GTK_WINDOW_POPUP from mutter/gnome-shell.
> So as far as I can see, your options are delegating the file chooser
> to an external process (like `zenity --file-selection`) or indeed
> reimplement a file chooser in gnome-shell.
>
> (A word of advise: I'm not very excited about the latter option, so
> you will need very strong buy-in from the GNOME design team to
> convince me to accept it

Ok, I will try using an external process like zenity then.

Cheers