Bug#284487: Disabling KDE/Gnome Filechooser is a drawback

[Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:33 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> They are broken. Try opening files with non-ASCII charcters saved bafore from 
> somewhere else.

The solution is to export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES if you are not using UTF-8
filenames.

> Additionally, the Gtk fpicker is broken in many ways
> (no way to enter a path (well, there's some unintuitive strg-whatever 
> combination), ftp:// and webdav:// iirc didn't work (OOo can open files over 
> FTP or WebDAV and it was no problem to open it with the OpenOffice.org 
> filepicker)

The lack of an entry is a design decision, and in GTK+ 2.6 this is a
moot point -- pressing a key when the file list is focused will open the
filename entry pop-up.

The lack of ftp and webdav: URLs is probably due to the GTK+ code in
OO.o not telling the file selector it can load non-local files, or it
not using the gnome-vfs backend.  If so, this is an OO.o bug.

Ross
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