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Bug 314458 - "Open Location" looks in the local file tree
"Open Location" looks in the local file tree
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300581
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
2.2.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks: 101604
 
 
Reported: 2005-08-25 15:47 UTC by Andrew Schulman
Modified: 2008-01-15 12:59 UTC
See Also:
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Description Andrew Schulman 2005-08-25 15:47:35 UTC 
Distribution/Version: XP SP2

(1) Run File -> Open Location...
(2) In the URI box, enter: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/bugz/ploticus.png

Result: a popup error dialog appears, with the message:

PNG Image message:

Could not open 'C:\Documents and Settings\aschulma\My Documents\My
Pictures\http:\\home.comcast.net\~andrex\bugz\ploticus.png' for reading: Invalid
argument

(Besides the fact that GIMP is looking in the wrong place, I'm offended that it
thinks I would store my pictures in the idiotic "My Documents\My Pictures" folder.)
Comment 1 Andrew Schulman 2005-08-25 17:08:23 UTC 
Just a clarification: that last bit was supposed to be a joke.  I think it came
off wrong.  No insult intended to the developers.
Comment 2 Sven Neumann 2005-08-25 19:34:46 UTC 
are you sure that you entered http:// (with slashes) and not http:\\ (with
back-slashes)? The latter is not an URL and as a fallback the code tries to open
a local file then.
Comment 3 Michael Schumacher 2005-08-25 19:40:27 UTC 
This is actually a duplicate of bug 300581. No one implemented http:// (or other
protocols except file://) on this platform so far.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300581 ***
Comment 4 Sven Neumann 2005-08-25 20:02:14 UTC 
Perhaps Open Location shouldn't be in the menus then?
Comment 5 Andrew Schulman 2005-08-25 20:04:20 UTC 
Thank you, I'll follow the other bug.