GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 531494
GtkFileChooser lists files twice when pasting path in Location bar
Last modified: 2008-09-10 05:36:30 UTC
Please describe the problem: I am using standard GtkFileChooser dialog to open the files in my program. When using Location entry widget to paste a path in this dialog, sometimes (not every time) the dialog lists the files in this path twice! This bug was reported to my by an user, and I could reproduce it myself on Windows build of GTK+ (v2.12.9 from http://www.gtk.org). Steps to reproduce: 1. Start GtkFileChooser dialog 2. paste a path in location bar (for example "C:\") 3. files are listed twice Actual results: files in the given folder are listed twice Expected results: Does this happen every time? No Other information:
Hi there, I can confirm, that sometimes entries are listed twice each - cf. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00229.html and bug #325095 GTK filechooser is the weakest point of Gnome and prone to spoil excellent GTK based applications like Gimp or Audacity. Openoffice.org reacted by introducing an option to use a Qt based file dialogue... Hopefully, this will be fixed soon. Thanks Rudi
See also: http://bugs.debian.org/455879 bug#500906 (marked as fixed, but is not really) bug#517292 bug#539814 All of these are probably the same underlying issue; when you use the "gtk+" filesystem backend, there’s a race condition that makes all files appear twice in several conditions. Still valid in gtk+ 2.12.11
Reproduces fine in gtk-2.12.11, doesn't reproduce in 2.14. Fix for #500906 probably wasn't backported to gtk-2.12, or perhaps it wasn't really fixed then. In any case, it's fixed in 2.14, and 2.14 is the new stable release, so FIXED. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 500906 ***