Re: FileChooser in 1.7.1

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 1 April 2013 02:03, Peter Hardman <peter somborneshetlands co uk> wrote:
> I run Arch Linux x86_64
> Just updated to 1.7.1 and I see that GTK's filechooser now opens in the (to
> me) wholly useless and annoying 'Recently Used' pseudo folder rather than
> the previous behaviour of opening in $HOME or the last directory I opened a
> file in.

There were no changes to filechooser behaviour in 1.7.1, save that we
now use actual FileChooserButtons in the new tab UI.

> Is this a side-effect of having the MRU in the File menu? I can't believe
> it's deliberate as with the new MRU it's completely pointless having
> filechooser open in 'Recently Used'.

Nope, it's totally unrelated. I also don't see this behaviour on my
test machine, though I'm currently running an old GTK+ here. As far as
I recall, we don't ever explicitly set the folder that a file chooser
starts in, so maybe some external default has changed?

Either way, I agree that opening in the recent section is pretty much
pointless. Can you file a bug with details (e.g., how to actually
reproduce the behaviour)?

cheers,
Kai