[GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

[Geert Janssens]

Hmm, on my flatpak gnucash I can drag and drop directories into the left sidebar, in the area 
that will show "Add bookmark" as soon as you start dragging.

Can you try that ?

Op donderdag 21 april 2022 12:43:26 CEST schreef James Thorpe:
> Yes, it is a flatpak app I see, thanks, perhaps that is why the OS or
> desktop bookmarks don't show.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any option in the file explorer to create
> bookmarks, though.
> 
> On 2022/04/21 12:22, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > Op woensdag 20 april 2022 09:06:53 CEST schreef James Thorpe:
> > > 2. The ability to see file browser bookmarks on Linux Mint
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This may be a rather more OS-specific topic but I use gnucash on Linux
> > > 
> > > Mint and I've set up bookmarks in the file explorer application that
> > > 
> > > allow me to quickly navigate to folders on my drive. These are mounted
> > > 
> > > network shares from my NAS drive. In Windows the mounted network drives
> > > 
> > > show up in the gnucash file browser but on Linux Mint these bookmarks
> > > 
> > > don't show up so I have to navigate manually to the mount points via the
> > > 
> > > file system. If anyone has any tips as to how to make these mounts /
> > > 
> > > bookmarks show up in the "root" of the file browser window that would
> > > 
> > > also be of great help.
> > 
> > If I remember correctly gnucash on Mint comes via a flatpak. A flatpak
> > application generally doesn't see the same setup as the main OS does.
> > So perhaps you have to recreate these bookmarks from within the
> > GnuCash file explorer. I just tried and this seems to work on my
> > Fedora 35 box.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 
> > Geert