From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020808 Description of problem: if you wish to go back, it's natural for me to type .. TAB. the file selector does not seem to understand the meaning of ".." in the Unix file system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. fire up a file selector 2. enter /u TAB .. TAB Actual Results: the folder list contains . and .. the text entry widget contains "..", with the cursor positioned at the beginning. Expected Results: the file selector should have gone up a level. Additional info: it's also interesting that if you type Return, the result will be returned to the application verbatim. I don't think it makes sense to return relative paths when the path starts absolutely. i.e., "../../bin" is OK, but "/usr/X11R6/lib/../bin" is probably not wanted nor expected. the testing was done with gtk2-2.0.6-1
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89972 (I don't really like the patch in there ... it is a "bandaid" patch" ... I'd rather understand what has changed betweeen GTK+1.2 and now.)
This was fixed in 2.2.