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Date:	Sat, 07 Jul 2012 15:26:38 -0700
From:	Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 AT cox DOT net>
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To:	geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	[geda-user] gtk hid file chooser problems
Reply-To:	geda-user AT delorie DOT com

Hello list,

I'm a long-time user who's been off list for a while. I'm running the 
latest snapshot pcb-20110918. The tools have been "just working" for so 
long that I haven't needed any support. However, that changed recently 
when I updated my main linux machine to Fedora 17. F17 is GTK 3 based 
and it appears that the behavior of the file chooser dialog has changed 
in that it no longer defaults to the current directory when 
gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder() isn't called to set it. Instead it 
presents you with a useless list of recently accessed files.

On many apps this isn't a problem because they must always explicitly 
set the default, but the PCB gtk hid only calls the 
gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder() function if there's a valid 
Settings.FilePath which usually isn't the case for me. That means every 
time I want to load a netlist or modified layout I have to navigate down 
to my working directory from the home directory.

To fix this, I added the following code to src/hid/gtk/gui-dialog.c in 
the ghid_dialog_file_select_open() function:

     if (path && *path)
      gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder (GTK_FILE_CHOOSER (dialog), 
*path);
++  else
++  {
++	gchar *default_path;
++	gchar *uri;
++	default_path = g_file_new_for_path (g_get_current_dir());
++	uri = g_file_get_uri (default_path);
++	gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder_uri (GTK_FILE_CHOOSER (dialog), 
uri);						
++	g_free (uri);
++  }

A similar fix is needed in the ghid_dialog_file_select_save() function.

I've been out of touch so long that there may be a more current source 
repo than that listed on the pcb.geda-project.org downloads page and 
this problem may have already been addressed. If so sorry for the noise.

Thanks for a great tool,

Eric

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