On 21 November 2012 14:09, Robbie Smith wrote:

I don’t recall when this started occurring (as most applications that open files open them one at a time so I seldom come across it), but the directory selection dialog seems to always open my home directory regardless of what I navigate to. The programs that spawn the dialog subsequently crash, as they’re trying to open *every file in my home directory* instead of a specific directory. Googling found no results except for [1] on our forum, and the OP thinks it has to do with wxWidgets, but I get this behaviour with every GTK directory open dialog.

Has anyone encountered this? Or is my computer also somewhat beserk?

Can’t say I’ve used a directory chooser recently but I have noticed the same problem with a “Save as” file chooser in a Python GTK program I have been playing with. It returns the correct file, but always returned the home directory as the “current folder”. I had this issue on Arch but not on Ubuntu.

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146064

Thanks for that link, I found it illuminating. Yes it is about WX Widgets but the underlying issue seems to be caused by GTK itself. The forum post links to WX Widgets bug #14525, “wxDirDialog::GetPath() doesn't return the user-selected path”, which claims to be fixed by remembering the path before hiding the dialog. http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/14525 The WX Widgets fix: http://trac.wxwidgets.org/changeset/72779 Fix I just made for my program: https://github.com/vadmium/python-iview/commit/84970fa I wonder if it would be considered a GTK bug, or just that all your applications are misusing the API :P