Gedit uses the following code to set the current_folder on the GtkFileChooser to the folder it wants to:

	if (default_path != NULL)
		gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder_uri (GTK_FILE_CHOOSER (open_dialog),
							 default_path);

	g_free (default_path);

        selector_width = gedit_prefs_manager_get_opensave_dialog_width ();
        selector_height = gedit_prefs_manager_get_opensave_dialog_height ();
        gtk_window_resize (GTK_WINDOW (open_dialog), selector_width, selector_height);
	g_signal_connect (open_dialog,
			  "response",
			  G_CALLBACK (open_dialog_response_cb),
			  window);

	gtk_widget_show (open_dialog);

However, it appears that GTK is clobbering the already-set current folder when the widget actually gets mapped.  It appears this is due to the async changes.

Sequence of events:

In gedit_cmd_file_open():
1) gedit creates file chooser widget
2) gedit sets current folder on the widget, which calls gtk_file_chooser_default_update_current_folder().  This sets impl->update_current_folder_handle to the handle for the first current_folder request.  Since the callback is async, it doesn't execute now.  Note that impl->reload_state is probably still RELOAD_EMPTY, since the async bits haven't run yet.
3) gedit calls gtk_widget_show (open_dialog);, which eventually maps the file chooser
4) gtk executes gtk_file_chooser_default_map() for the file chooser, which exectues the RELOAD_EMPTY statements, which calls gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder()
5) In this _second_ call to gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder(), which is really gtk_file_chooser_default_update_current_folder(), mpl->update_current_folder_handle gets set to the default directory which was specified from #4 above
6) Eventually the first async call for #2 above runs, which executes the following code:

  if (handle != impl->update_current_folder_handle)
    goto out;

However, since impl->update_current_folder_handle is now the handle from #5 above, and 'handle' is the handle from #2 above, we break out and dont' set the directory to what it should be set to, which is what gedit wants.


Backtrace:

Breakpoint 1, gtk_file_chooser_default_update_current_folder (chooser=Variable "chooser" is not available.
) at gtkfilechooserdefault.c:6190
6190      data = g_new0 (struct UpdateCurrentFolderData, 1);
(gdb) bt

+ Trace 68093