GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 145337
Gedit's file open dialog box gets corrupted
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: It seems that the line: mount --bind /usr/share/doc /var/ftp/doc in my rc.local file is causing gedit's file open dialog box to replce "Filesystem" with "doc". Due to the new dialog box that doesn't include a space to enter a path, this bug makes it impossible to navigate to the root of the filesystem. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Create mount in rc.local. 2. Open the file open dialog in gedit. 3. Actual Results: doc appears in place of filesystem. Expected Results: Filesystem should always appear, and doc should not appear. How often does this happen? 100% repeatable. Additional Information: Makes gedit completely unusable on this system.
Sorry, I should add this is the standard GNOME 2.6 bundled with Fedora Core 2. The gedit version is gedit-2.6.0-4.
standard question for filechooser bugs: does this happen also with other gnome apps which use the new filechooser? (for instance eog) If yes, plese reassign the bug to gtk+
eog works fine, "Filesystem" visible in eog's file-open even when in gedit's is has been replaced by "doc".
Ok... not sure if relevant fixes have been applied, but may you also test if a newer gedit version fixes it? (latest tarball is gedit-2.6.2)
I was up2date with all Fedora's patches. I found a gedit-2.6.1 binary which I tried but it didn't fix it. Don't know if I had all that I needed to compile gedit... I would doubt it, but I didn't try. I am unable to test further as I toasted that system and folded back to Fedora Core 1 (GNOME 2.4) as I couldn't live with all the problems in FC2. In particular I found the lack of a text entry box in the file-picker to be really annoying, I used it to snap to a directory then pick manually. Really useful when you knew where something lived, but not exactly what it was called. I hated the new file-picker. I could get around the other new weirdness, but that one was a show stopper, and to have that bug that prevented navigation up the tree.... Sorry, I just gave up.
FYI I was experimenting with Slackware 10 (GNOME 2.6.1) and noticed this bug was not present in that version.
This seems a duplicate of bug #139854 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 139854 ***