Re: A few problems with GtkFileChooser

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 10:18, Dave Malcolm wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 14:06, iain wrote:
> > I've been trying out the file chooser in my program and have come
> > against a few issues
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> > 4: When you select a filter, say "All PNGs" all the directories
> > disappear too.
> 
> I'm trying from fairly-up-to-date CVS, and when I select a mime-based
> filter _everything_ disappears, files and directories.  I did a bit of
> digging, and my mime types seem a bit hosed, all files are coming out as
> "application/octet-stream", and all directories as NULL.  (I'm going to
> investigate further...)

I think you need the XDG mime information installed for the Unix backend
MIME type detection to work properly. I'm not sure what we'll do about
this for the final GTK+-2.4 release... probably just make it another
dependency of GTK+ :-(

 http://www.freedesktop.org/software/shared-mime-info

Though perhaps directories all just show up with a NULL mime type.

> Do we have to specify "x-directory/normal" in the list of mime types for
> the filter in order to see folders?  This only makes sense if we're
> intending for the user to select a directory itself.
> 
> Perhaps we need to always list folders; attached is a patch to the
> default widget's list model filter which does this (plus a bit of
> useless debug code as I track down my MIME issues).

If you make it only do that when the filechooser isn't in directory
mode, looks fine to commit. (Without the debug spew, of course.)

Regards,
						Owen