Re: Floppy disc access dialogs

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 07:48, scootergrisen via meld-list
<meld-list gnome org> wrote:
> In Windows there are some problems with dialogs that appear.
> I have a memory card reader that uses drive E:.
> When the memory card is mounted there is no problem.
> But if i eject the memory card and open Meld or open a new comparison i
> get dialogs about some access problems.
>
> I have seen this in other software to.
> I think the software was just trying to scan everything. A:, B:, C:,
> etc. and since there is no A: and B: the dialog comes... i think.
>
> In 3.20.0 i have to click Cancel 31 times to get rid og the dialog.
> In 3.18.3 i think i had to click Cancel two times.

This most likely has to do with the GTK+ file selectors that we're
using. In 3.20 they (unintentionally) changed to be non-native, which
most likely explains the increasing number of prompts. See
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/issues/348 for a few more details.

cheers,
Kai