Public bug reported:
Various file selection dialog boxes within the Xfce desktop environment
appear to be not enabled to navigate into . leading hidden directories.
There is no provided way to manually enter a specific filename / file
path.
One place I encountered this sharp spot is building Application
Launchers for Wine programs. Wine defaults to building its "C:\ Drive"
in an hidden (. leading) directory off the user's profile/home
directory. This makes it extremely difficult to navigate into that
directory when setting up an Application Launcher for a Wine program.
Please see attached screen shot of a clean setup of Xubuntu 18.04.
I end up needing to locate the Application Launcher on disk in a
terminal window, then edit it directly in a text editor. Sample edits of
a couple of Wine Application Launchers via grep:
Application Launchers located under this directory:
~/.config/xfce4/panel/
launcher-20/13563769951.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/wine c:\\\\notes\\\\notes.exe
launcher-20/13563769951.desktop:Icon=/home/mdlueck/.wine/drive_c/notes/notes64.png
launcher-20/13563769951.desktop:Icon[en_US]=/home/mdlueck/.wine/drive_c/notes/notes64.png
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/wine 'c:\\\\Program Files
(x86)\\\\PMView\\\\PMView.exe'
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Icon=/home/mdlueck/.wine/drive_c/Program Files
(x86)/PMView/PMViewPro64.png
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Icon[en_US]=/home/mdlueck/.wine/drive_c/Program
Files (x86)/PMView/PMViewPro64.png
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Name=PMView Pro
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Name[en_US]=PMView Pro
Two enhancement requests to facilitate not having to drop down to
terminal level:
1) Put a UI field to manually enter / paste in a physical path.
2) Add option to hide/show hidden files.
** Affects: xfdesktop4 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "Screenshot example of the issue"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1735431/+attachment/5016579/+files/CreateLauncherIconSelectionNotPossibleToSelect.wineDirectoryFromHomeDirectory.png
** Summary changed:
- Nort possible to navigate into hidden directories with file selector dialog
box
+ Not possible to navigate into hidden directories with file selector dialog box
** Description changed:
Various file selection dialog boxes within the Xfce desktop environment
appear to be not enabled to navigate into . leading hidden directories.
There is no provided way to manually enter a specific filename / file
path.
One place I encountered this sharp spot is building Application
Launchers for Wine programs. Wine defaults to building its "C:\ Drive"
in an hidden (. leading) directory off the user's profile/home
directory. This makes it extremely difficult to navigate into that
directory when setting up an Application Launcher for a Wine program.
Please see attached screen shot of a clean setup of Xubuntu 18.04.
I end up needing to locate the Application Launcher on disk in a
terminal window, then edit it directly in a text editor. Sample edits of
a couple of Wine Application Launchers via grep:
+ Application Launchers located under this directory:
+
+ ~/.config/xfce4/panel/
+
launcher-20/13563769951.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/wine c:\\\\notes\\\\notes.exe
launcher-20/13563769951.desktop:Icon=/home/mdlueck/.wine/drive_c/notes/notes64.png
launcher-20/13563769951.desktop:Icon[en_US]=/home/mdlueck/.wine/drive_c/notes/notes64.png
+
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/wine 'c:\\\\Program Files
(x86)\\\\PMView\\\\PMView.exe'
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Icon=/home/mdlueck/.wine/drive_c/Program
Files (x86)/PMView/PMViewPro64.png
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Icon[en_US]=/home/mdlueck/.wine/drive_c/Program
Files (x86)/PMView/PMViewPro64.png
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Name=PMView Pro
launcher-48/14782179451.desktop:Name[en_US]=PMView Pro
Two enhancement requests to facilitate not having to drop down to
terminal level:
1) Put a UI field to manually enter / paste in a physical path.
2) Add option to hide/show hidden files.
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