Description of problem: My Qt (PyQt) application, Veusz, now appears to use a KDE file dialog when exporting files with the updated Qt 4.6. I assume this is a patch to the Qt Fedora supplies. This dialog is okay, but it appears to now work correctly when selecting filters. The application tries to use the same filter as last time, but the dialog is not responding to the selectFilter request. My application does something like dialog = QFileDialog(parent) dialog.setFilters(filters) dialog.selectFilter(filt) where filters=['Encapsulated Postscript (*.eps)', 'Portable Network Graphics (*.png)', 'Jpeg bitmap (*.jpg)', 'Windows bitmap (*.bmp)', 'Portable Document Format (*.pdf)', 'Scalable Vector Graphics (*.svg)'] and filt='Portable Document Format (*.pdf)' setFilters and selectFilter don't appear in the API docs for Qt 4.6, but did for Qt 4.2. They do not appear to be deprecated. The list of filters is set in the dialog, but the selectFilter call appears not to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qt-4.6.2-1.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install veusz 2. Try to export PDF document in veusz 3. Try again, notice that it does not select the PDF filter in the export dialog.
I've tried the new api, setNameFilter and setNameFilters, and these work okay. It would be good to have a completely compatible file dialog. I've also discovered another fairly serious issue. My application sets the directory for the dialog using dialog.setDirectory(somedir), where somedir is like '/data/jss/veusz/code/veusz'. The KDE file dialog in Fedora's Qt 4.6 displays the contents of the parent directory of this directory, not the directory itself. The Qt docs say this call "Sets the file dialog's current directory."
Sorry - another problem. The new file dialog doesn't make the parent window go dark under kwin with compositing switched on. It makes it rather hard to see which window is the parent window.
I've changed this to kde-workspace, as Kevin Kofler says this is provided by /usr/lib(64)/kde4/plugins/gui_platform/libkde.so I've also filed an upstream bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229375
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue to us. We will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Thank you for the bug report. Steven M. Parrish KDE & Packagekit Triager Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers