Re: How to disable reading of ~/.config/gtk-2.0 ?

[Geoff Bache <geoff bache jeppesen com>]

Ed Mansur wrote:
> It's an internal implementation detail, so your documentation is the
> source - look at gtk/gtkfilechoosersettings.c.
Is there another way users are supposed to edit it then? It seems to 
seriously affect
what filechoosers look like (in the case of the location mode, which is 
mostly what I care about,
an entirely new widget appears), and it seems a bit odd to direct people 
to read uncommented
C code when they want to configure the default appearance of their 
filechooser dialogs.
In any case, you cannot understand location mode by reading that file, 
other than to state
that it has two possible values and they set a variable called 
location_mode...

The gtkfilechooser file seems to be automatically generated when running 
GTK apps. However,
it seems to get given different default values for some people despite 
nobody here having a clue it
even existed. Most people seem to have LocationMode=path-bar, but the 
guy who recently built
GTK 2.10 for us had LocationMode=filename-entry. What steers this?

Would be good even with programmer documentation, I see nothing in the 
FileChooser docs
about location mode. Is it possible to examine it programmatically?

Now I wouldn't even know or care about any of this stuff, but 
LocationMode=filename-entry
seems to have some weird effects on our application. The filechoosers 
seem to not emit various
signals that they do emit when in path-bar set-up, which our application 
is expecting, and more seriously,
the modality of the dialog seems to break down in some way (certain 
changes to the main GUI are
allowed while the dialog is up). I haven't at all got to the bottom of 
these effects, and to what extent
they are my fault as opposed to GTK's fault,  so this isn't a bug 
report, I was just wondering if somebody
could shed some light on this and maybe give me some pointers.

At least our acceptance tests no longer depend on this file, which is 
progress!

Regards,
Geoff