I haven't used the menu or tool bars to visit files before, but I just tried it and visiting worked, but modifying the directory list under "Browse for other folders" didn't work. I started emacs -q and clicked on the file icon in the toolbar or the corresponding menu bar entry. At first I was able to add a directory to the list, but when I tried to remove it, an error message window popped up which said: "Could not remove a bookmark Bookmark saving failed: Could not change file mode: waitpid() failed: No child processes" Then I tried to add another directory and this time it failed with the same error message (except it said "Could not add a bookmark..."). Subseqently, even after starting emacs -q again, and even after deleting ~/.gtk-bookmarks, no modification of the list has been possible. As a sanity check, I tried the same in Firefox, which uses the same GTK dialog, and it worked fine there. I don't know if it's significant that, while testing the file dialog with emacs -q, I also had an Emacs session with my initializations running (I first tried the GTK file dialog there and found the same problems).
In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.7 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.7) of 2005-12-09 on escher X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000 configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: tabbar-mwheel-mode: t tabbar-mode: t recentf-mode: t show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: identity Recent input: <select-window> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <help-echo> C-x k <return> C-x 1 <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <double-down-mouse-4> <double-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> g <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <help-echo> g <prior> <drag-n-drop> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C <up> <up> <return> y g <help-echo> <help-echo> <drag-n-drop> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> g <up> <down> <drag-n-drop> <help-echo> M-x r e p o <tab> C-g M-x r e p o r <tab> b <tab> <return> Recent messages: Press C-c C-c when finished or C-c ESC to abort changes insert-directory: Reading directory: no such file or directory, /home/steve/.gtk-bookmarks mwheel-scroll: End of buffer Overwrite `/home/steve/.gtk-bookmarks'? [Type yn!q or C-h] Overwrite `/home/steve/.gtk-bookmarks'? [Type yn!q or C-h] y Copy: 1 of 1 Copy: 1 file Making completion list... Quit Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug