On 07/12/2017 04:15 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
On 2017-07-11 at 22:41:00 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Something is fundamentally not working here. I'm just trying to
> change the desktop background picture.
>
> I go into Settings > Desktop. The "Background" tab is open by default.
>
> The "Folder" dropdown list offers several predefined locations. I
> pick "Other", and a file selection dialog opens, showing the contents
> of "/usr/share".
>
> But every file and subdirectory of "/usr/share" is grayed out and
> disabled. I can't actually browse the filesystem. The dialog is dead.
>
> The only thing I can do here is pick from one of the preselected
> directory locations on the left, like "Desktop", "Documents",
> "Music", etc. Each one opens the corresponding directory, but that's
> it. Every file and subdirectory is grayed out and disabled.
>
> I'm seeing this on two separate laptops that were upgraded to F26.
> What the heck is going on?
Same on F25.
Confirmed on F25 and F26. This appears to be a bug in the file selector
code in gtk2 versions above 2.24.30. There are complaints about it on
the archlinux sites going back almost a year. Theoretically, reverting
to gtk2 2.24.30-3 fixes it.
My up-to-date F25 uses gtk2-2.24.31-2.fc25.x86_64, my just-installed-
and-upgraded F26 is using gtk2-2.24.31-4.fc26.x86_64. Looks like time
for yet another bug report to the gtk2 people. Sheesh.
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