[GNC] GNUcash 3.2 file open issue

[David Carlson]

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.monteleone at 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 <davidcousens at 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
> >
> >
> >
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