On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:24 PM, segfault <segfa...@riseup.net> wrote: > In this design, to allow the user to specify keyfiles, there should a > button in the ShellMountPasswordDialog, which opens a file chooser > dialog when clicked. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any code in GNOME > Shell which uses a file chooser dialog, and I wasn't able to open a > GtkFileChooserDialog (or any other GtkWindow) in gnome-shell without > causing gnome-shell to crash.
Yes, the window manager cannot open any windows that are handled by the window manager. In the context of GTK+, that means that you can only open GtkWindows of type GTK_WINDOW_POPUP from mutter/gnome-shell. So as far as I can see, your options are delegating the file chooser to an external process (like `zenity --file-selection`) or indeed reimplement a file chooser in gnome-shell. (A word of advise: I'm not very excited about the latter option, so you will need very strong buy-in from the GNOME design team to convince me to accept it) Cheers, Florian _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
