If I recall, there was an issue unique to another O S, possibly Windows that required special treatment in the past. Maybe still true.
I am not a developer tho so don't quote me. David C On Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 10:58 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Yep, a bug for sure. I’m curious why GC creates its own file/print dialogs > when they could instead call the native OS dialogs. To me, that’s the bug > and the problem in this thread would also be solved. It’s also less code to > maintain. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jul 26, 2018, at 6:06 PM, DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > > > Adrien, David, > > > > The same issue occurs in Linux Mint 19(Tara) which is Ubuntu 18.04 based. > > Nemo (file explorer) can see the mounted USB stick and access it > directly > > or via the /media/<user>/ mount point for the device but the Gnucash file > > open dialog neither sees the USB stick or /media/<user>/ mount point when > > you click on other locations. It only lists a restricted set of the > > directories under / by comparison with what can be accessed from Nemo. > Not > > being able to access the /media mount points would qualify as a bug. > > > > On LM19 /media has 755 permissions, the user directory under it has 750 > and > > the mounted USB stick has 755 permissions. > > > > The file->Open dialog in LibreOffice which looks to be a similar GTK3 > dialog > > does display the USB stick in the sidebar and it sees all the directories > > under / as well as any networked locations which don't show up in GnuCash > > either. > > > > if no-one has already filked a bug i will put one in later today. > > > > David Cousens > > > > > > > > ----- > > David Cousens > > -- > > Sent from: > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
