Re: FileChooser in 1.7.1

[Peter Hardman <peter somborneshetlands co uk>]

On 01/04/13 20:22, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> 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)?

Thanks. I'll file a bug.

It's definitely a delta between 1.70 and 1.71 - I can have both open 
showing the different behaviours. I'm on gtk2 2.24.17 and gtk3 3.6.4, 
though I assume Meld uses gtk2. I'm also using python 2.7.3

Pete


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Peter Hardman