Advogato: Blog for federico

Mon 2009/Jun/15

I've been giving some love to the GTK+ file chooser.

Actually, that's not quite accurate. People have been sending lovely patches, so I've been getting off my ass to review those patches.
- The file lists shouldn't jump up and down when you switch to recent or search mode (patch by Milan Bouchet-Valat).
- Don't show backup files (patch by Milan Bouchet-Valat).
- Make it harder to create folders named "Type name of new folder" (patch by Milan Bouchet-Valat).
- Don't show errors when the default starting folder doesn't exist (patch by Milan Bouchet-Valat).
- Remember the sort state of the columns (patch by Benjamin Gramlich).
- Make Backspace work again to switch to the parent folder (patch by me, just to pretend that I'm not slacking).
In other news, I'm making Sabayon use Xephyr instead of Xnest for its child session window. Currently a bunch of apps crash under Sabayon because they don't handle the missing X extensions that Xnest lacks.

Fedora has a patch which simply does s/Xnest/Xephyr. That makes Sabayon work quite well, but for some reason you cannot type anything at all in the session window. Xephyr is not even getting keyboard events. Sabayon has some esoteric code to deal with focus switching and to send keyboard events to the child session... I'm trying to see why that doesn't work with Xephyr, but it works fine with Xnest.