Bug 39844 – Open file dialog behaves oddly wrt full path names

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Bug 39844 - Open file dialog behaves oddly wrt full path names

Summary:	Open file dialog behaves oddly wrt full path names

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	xpdf (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Ngo Than
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Reported:	2001-05-09 05:32 EDT by Tim Waugh
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:33 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-05-09 06:13:00 EDT
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Description Tim Waugh 2001-05-09 05:32:59 EDT

Description of Problem:
Open file dialog behaves oddly.

How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start xpdf
2. Press 'O'
3. Place a PDF file in /tmp and type '/tmp/file.pdf' in the 'File:' box.

Actual Results:
Nothing apparent.  .xsession-errors contains:
Error: Couldn't open file '/home/tim//tmp/file.pdf'

Expected Results:
It should note the leading slash and open /tmp/file.pdf.

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-05-09 05:37:20 EDT

The save file dialog has a similar problem.

Comment 2 Ngo Than 2001-05-09 06:07:32 EDT

The pdf in "File" edit field is just relativ to "Dir". You should first change
the directory, in your case to /tmp, and then give the pdf file in edit field
"File".

I don't think, it's a  bug.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2001-05-09 06:12:56 EDT

Disagree.  No other file dialog in the world works this way.  It is broken.  
Why would I put a slash at the beginning if I was typing in a relative path 
name?

Xpdf should just spot this, like every other file dialog does.

Comment 4 Ngo Than 2002-06-02 12:51:29 EDT

it's fixed in 1.01-3.

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