In our network, home directories are mounted at /homes. Now supposed someone wants to open a program in the Green Hills MULTI debugger. The file selection dialog won't expand ~someone, so you have to type /homes/someone. When the dialog sees /homes though, it helpfully tries to list the directory,
and almost always hangs up with the help of stale NFS file handles.
The solution to this problem is typing the pathname in portions, as in "omes/someone",
then going back and prepending "/h".
Yossi
Jeremy Stephens wrote:
Fellow haters,
Since it's been a week or so without any hate, I thought I'd express my
hatred of the GTK+ file selection dialog. Not only does it lock up
Firefox for 2 minutes when I try to choose a program to open a file with
from /usr/bin, but its filename completion is sketchy at best. Say I
want to upload a file to some site from /usr/share/cool-stuff, and I
start typing the directory I want in the dialog. Sometimes (this
happens randomly as far as I can tell) the dialog will perform
auto-expansion, so if I'm not paying attention and typing quickly the
directory box will contain '/usr/share/are/co/cool-stuff'. If I did
happen to notice the expansion, and only typed '/ushco', the dialog
would expand it correctly, but when I hit enter, I get an error that
says something like, "'/usr/share/co' does not exist".
Apparently the newest version of GTK+ (2.10) addresses some of these
issues, but it's not available in Debian yet.
Jeremy
