Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New GTK 2.4 File->Open dialog in 0.10.5 doesn't remember directories?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Ian Schorr wrote:

> I notice that the new File->Open dialog used with GTK+2.4 doesn't do 
> any remembering of previously browsed directories - either between 
> multiple uses of the dialog in the same instance of ethereal, or upon 
> initial use of the dialog.
>
> gui.fileopen_remembered_dir seems to be getting updated, though, but I 
> assume it's just being ignored by the new dialog.
>
> Is this intentional for some reason?  I'm not sure what the purposes 
> of the Add and Remove buttons are in the new dialog, they appear to be 
> perpetually disabled for me.  I'm assuming they're there to allow a 
> use to add "shortcut" directories, though that doesn't really take the 
> place of "remembering" the previous dir.
>
> I'm assuming this is a bug?  I've only used GTK+2.4 on Windows (and I 
> haven't parsed through the new code) so I'm not sure if this is a 
> Win32-only thing.

You're assuming right.

When trimming the filename for the GTK2.4 FileChooser dialog I've made a 
mistake. This dialog is very pedantic about it's parameters. This bug 
will affect all open file dialogs.

I've checked in a fix in current CVS.

Regards, ULFL