Am 2006-11-22 02:10:00, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Package: xdialog > Version: 2.2.1-1 > It is impossible to select hidden directories in the "dselect" window. > There should be a clickable option in that window stating something like > "Show hidden directories".
Not possibel, since "xdialog" is using the GTK directors select box.
Feel free to write a bugreport agains GTK1.2 and GTK2.0
> The file /usr/share/doc/xdialog/html/faq.html#Q08 says that one should type
> a
> "." into the text entry field and then press the TAB key to show the hidden
> directories in the selector list. But that is not true. There is no text
> entry field and pressing the TAB key doesn't make the hidden directories
> to show up.
This was in the OLD version up to 2.1
> That file also tells that appending ".*" to the default directory name into
> the Xdialog command line, makes all the hidden directory names (and only
> them) to appear into the dselect widgets when poped up. E.g.:
> Xdialog --dselect "/home/foo/.*" 0 0
> But that is also not true. Appending ".*" to the default directory name into
> the Xdialog command line has no effect.
Same true for version 2.3
> The best thing to correct this would be a clickable option in that dselect
> window stating something like "Show hidden directories". It would be much
> more intuitive than the old and misterious method of typing a "." into the
> text entry field and then pressing the TAB key.
> That help file, /usr/share/doc/xdialog/html/, should be updated in order to
> correctly reflect the new situation.
I will contact the Upstream.
Since the maintainer of "xdialog" seems not more active
and xdialg 2.3 is out since over 5 month.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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