Hi Benard, Sorry about the delay, but I wanted to check this out a bit myself first on a few other computers. The bug seems to be confined to openoffice.org-kde package, and should only affect kubuntu users. In the plain ubuntu box I tried, it seems there is some other file dialog integration package (openoffice.org-gtk?) that doesn't have this problem, and works as you're describing it. If I remove openoffice.org-kde, the crummy default openoffice file dialog is used which does open "*.*" for <all> but yet finds filenames without "." in them.
I have the same problem on my home computer which is running kubuntu 9.10 (x86-32) on much different hardware and much differently configured. I understand that openoffice.org-kde is relatively new and has a few bugs in it. I'm not a programmer but I guess it'll have to massage the filter data passed from openoffice as openoffice.org-gtk apparently does. I hope this helps in getting the bug filed correctly. - Paul Moir On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Bernard Decock <decockbern...@skynet.be> wrote: > Hi Paul, how do you know that *.* is being used? When I use open file > (all files) then all files as well as directories are being displayed. > (Tested on Ubuntu 9.10) > > -- > File dialogs uses wrong filter for "All Files" > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501983 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: openoffice.org > > When opening a file, one possible option is "All Files (*.*)". Since the > filter really is *.* rather than *, the open file dialogue will not find any > files without a dot extension. That is to say it will find "file.txt" or > "file." but not "file". This is confusing to the user and makes it seem that > your files have disappeared. > > The same problem exists in other file opening dialogues such as the ones in > the Insert->Object functions that refer to files where the <All> filter is in > fact *.*. Note in those dialogues there is no clue given that only *.* is > being filtered. Replacing <All> with * gives the expected results. > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Thu Dec 31 18:20:03 2009 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 > NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx > Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 > ProcEnviron: > LANGUAGE=en_CA:en > PATH=(custom, no user) > LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic > SourcePackage: openoffice.org > Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64 > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/501983/+subscribe -- File dialogs uses wrong filter for "All Files" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501983 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
