{"id":714,"date":"2012-12-29T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=714"},"modified":"2012-12-29T00:03:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T05:03:25","slug":"gtkfilechooser-not-choosing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2012\/12\/29\/gtkfilechooser-not-choosing\/","title":{"rendered":"GtkFileChooser not choosing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I maintain a reasonably popular app called Asunder. This app has in its preferences a GtkFileChooserButton, and implementation of the (supposedly) interface GtkFileChooser.<\/p>\n

I’ve been getting bug reports about the selected directory not being saved when you save the preferences and looked into it again today. I could hardly believe what I found.<\/p>\n

If I double-click on the directory I want selected and click “Open”, what I get looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"gtkfilechooserbutton\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But gtk_file_chooser_get_filename() returns.. “\/home\/andrew”. I dug and dug through my code and the GTK reference looking for an explanation, but found none. After experimenting some more I found the problem:<\/p>\n

This only happens if I double-click on the directory I want (“temp” in this case). If instead I single-click on the directory I want – I get it. Using other GtkFileChooser getters doesn’t fix anything. So this is not a bug in my code (in fact I don’t think I could hack around this even if I wanted to), this is probably some retard deciding that his 0.001% use case is more important design-wise than everyone else who uses GTK.<\/p>\n

I guess that’s just the way things are in a lot of open source. Instead of being brushed aside because you’re not the highest-paying customer your needs are brushed aside because they aren’t matching someone else’s vision.<\/p>\n

There’s a chance that this is an honest bug (not a design decision), but how is one to know for sure? I mean look at what they’ve done to KDE4 and Gnome3.. my faith in open source is starting to waver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I maintain a reasonably popular app called Asunder. This app has in its preferences a GtkFileChooserButton, and implementation of the (supposedly) interface GtkFileChooser. I’ve been getting bug reports about the selected directory not being saved when you save the preferences and looked into it again today. I could hardly believe what I found. If I … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-714","6":"format-standard","7":"category-opensource","8":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}