GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 485766
filechooser should automatically fallback rather than displaying an error
Last modified: 2009-06-12 16:43:49 UTC
The bug has been described on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150772 "I was uploading files to Flickr (through the web UI, just selected them straight off the CF card in Firefox), deleted them afterwards, unmounted the CF card, and resumed browsing. I accidentally hit Ctrl-O in Firefoxat one point, and was greeted with this: http://www.fooishbar.org/tmp/file-dialog-of-despair.png It's a bit hostile: I haven't asked it to do anything it can't do, just open a file. Surely it should just fall back to the Home directory if so? I've reported this against GTK because I think FF just uses the stock GTK filepicker, but if it doesn't, feel free to reassign."
Unfortunately fooishbar.org is now dead, but it's a dialog box complaining about not being able to find /media/EOS_DIGITAL/DCIM/103CANON or whatever.
screenshot is gone, so I can't quite make out what the cause of despair is, here...
easy steps to trigger the bug - create a test directory - start gedit - type "text" in the textview widget - click on "save" - save the document in the test directory - remove the directory using nautilus - click on "open" in gedit You get a message saying that the directory is not available
mclasen: The screenshot is back now, but the behaviour is exactly as Seb describes.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 562579 ***