On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 07:32:41PM -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:01 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote: > > It seems like the File/Open dialogs in the Fedora/Gnome apps no longer > > have a way to type in a path to a file, which is fine for casual local > > browsing but doesn't help me get at my company's autofs-mounted data. > > Is there any way to change this behaviour? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Hugh > > You did not say which desktop (KDE, gnome, etc.), but in gnome you can > just start typing the path and a textbox will appear. BTW: I'm not > very fond of the Open Dialog either. > Another problem is that this file dialog may want to access everything that you have configured in your automounter. E.g. if you mount a lot of disks under /disks it will mount all of them once you access anything under /disks . Well, actually (and that's where I get confused) it only does this when you are NOT running gnome. That's right, on the Gnome desktop, applications using the GTK2 file dialog only access the disks you want them to access. Under other desktop environments (KDE, XFCE, good old twm etc) they seem to want access to all available disks as if creating a recursive directory tree. Does anyone know how to change that? What magic daemon is runnimng in gnome which prevents this bahaviour? I have tested running nautilus in xfce, but that makes no difference. David Jansen
