On 2/28/19 5:03 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > A rather mysterious issue has cropped up on the user list, and I'm > moving it over here hoping someone will have a clue where to look. I'd > file a bug report, but I'm not entirely sure it's a LyX bug. > > Symptom: On some systems, the file dialog opened by File > Import > > LaTeX (plain)... fails to find .tex files with the default file filter > (*.tex) but sees them when you switch the filter to all files. > > Now comes the goofy part. > > * The original report was by a user of Linux Mint 18 (Sarah), in > both the Cinnamon and MATE desktop environments, using the version > of LyX 2.3.2 from Liviu's repository, on two different machines. > * On my desktop (Mint 18.3 Sylvia, MATE, same version of LyX from > same repo) I cannot reproduce this problem. > * On my laptop (Mint 19.1 Tessa, MATE, same version of LyX from same > repo) I can reproduce the problem. > * Someone else reported the problem on Ubuntu 18.04 (also LyX 2.3.2, > provenance unknown). > > It doesn't seem to be a function of the desktop environment (MATE on > both my systems), nor to an old versus new OS version (my desktop is a > newer version the OP's and an older version than my laptop). > > It doesn't seem to a function of the Qt version (identical across OP's > machine and both of mine), nor the specific compilation of LyX (same > binary, down to the compile date, on both my machines). > > I don't think it's a MIME type issue. Both my desktop and my laptop > give me the same MIME type (text/x-tex) for a .tex file. > > I ran LyX with -dbg any on both systems, and both times when I opened > the import menu item I saw the same info for the file filter: > >> Select with path "/home/paul", mask "LaTeX (plain) (*.tex);;All Files >> (*)", suggested "" > There is one other oddity, which may or may not be related to the > problem. Despite the fact that the OP and I are running the same > version of LyX (2.3.2) built with the same version of Qt (4.8.7) under > the same desktop environment (MATE) on fundamentally the same OS > (Mint), her file dialog and the file dialog on my laptop look the same > as each other but different from the file dialog on my desktop (where > things work). The layout of controls is a bit different, and on her > machine and my laptop the filter select control is a button that just > says "LaTeX" (with a down arrow to change types) whereas on my desktop > there is a label field and a select control, with the select control > entry defaulting to "LaTeX (plain) (*.tex)". > > I don't see anything like this in the bug tracker. Any suggestions on > something I can test here? Should I file a bug report? > There is a 'native dialog' thing that might have to do with this. It might be that you're getting Qt's dialogs in some cases and your desktop's dialogs in others. But I have no idea, really.
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