----- "Ardhan Madras" <aj...@knac.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I got similar issues when running your codes, also i was trying to
> produce this 'error' by selecting 'Choose Download Folder:' in Mozilla
> Firefox's preferences. My system version:
>
> [think...@thinkpad gtk+]$ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0 glib-2.0
> 2.18.9
> 2.22.5
>
> If you try more than a slash like '//' or '///' it's works, it's
> perfectly legal for naming '///' as root dir. ;p
>
> Ardhan
>
> --- pwie...@trychlos.org wrote:
>
> From: Pierre Wieser <pwie...@trychlos.org>
> To: gtk-app-devel-list <gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org>
> Subject: Select root folder in GtkfileChooser
> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 00:41:52 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Hi
>
> In Nautilus-Actions, I need to let my users select folders, including
> root folder ('/').
>
> In a GtkFileChooserDialog, there is obviously no way to select the
> root
> folder by clicking on it, because it has no parent.
>
> But when I enter "/" in the location entry, and click on Open button,
> I get the message:
> "The folder could not be created
> Error creating directory: File exists."
>
> Sample code to reproduce this is below:
>
> GtkWidget *dialog;
> gchar *path;
>
> dialog = gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new( _( "Select a folder" ),
> NULL,
> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SELECT_FOLDER,
> GTK_STOCK_CANCEL, GTK_RESPONSE_CANCEL,
> GTK_STOCK_OPEN, GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT,
> NULL );
>
> gtk_file_chooser_set_filename( GTK_FILE_CHOOSER( dialog ), "/" );
>
> if( gtk_dialog_run( GTK_DIALOG( dialog )) == GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT ){
> path = gtk_file_chooser_get_filename( GTK_FILE_CHOOSER( dialog
> ));
> g_debug( "nact_ifolders_tab_on_add_folder_clicked: path=%s",
> path
> );
> g_free( path );
> }
>
> gtk_widget_destroy( dialog );
>
> Is this a bug (and so I should open it Bugzilla) ?
> Or is there something missing in my code ?
>
Well, one cannot really wait for the user enter '//' or even '///' when
he just wants '/'.
I must admit that I hoped that my code was not right...
I am going to wait one or two days to see if one of Gtk maintainers has
an opinion about this issue. And I'll open this in Bugzilla.
Regards
Pierre
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