gedit filechooser box

Daniel Borgmann spark-mailinglists at web.de
Fri Sep 24 13:18:41 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 09:11 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Don!
> 
> On 2004-09-23  9:47 -0400, Don Korte wrote:
> > the gedit filechooser box does not have (at least an obvious) way to
> > select filesystem directories that are not under the user's home
> > directory.
> 
> Hmm, at least my version (latest one) of gedit has the very same file
> chooser as any other gnome application. Showing the User's homedir by
> default is certainly a sane default, but to edit other files, I can
> just select the "file system" "drive" in the list on the left side.

For me (Ubuntu Preview with all upgrades installed), the Filesystem
entry only appears when running gedit as root, which makes a bit of
sense. Gedit version is 2.8.0.





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