On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 09:06 +0000, Nicolas Dufour wrote:
Thus there's no reason why (bug excepted) why it shouldn't work on gnome.
Thanks for the further information. I'm still a little confused. As a design; getting users to select executable files is wrong on Gnome. If this is what you have, then it's broken by it's design, even if it technically works.
It sounds like you've programmed to the Windows concept of selecting program file via their exe file. Which isn't how XDG/FreeDesktop systems work (gnome, kde etc), these use .desktop files in known locations which have translated names, icons and descriptions of the program.
Have I gotten the right end of the stick, that you've modified the file selection dialog to allow you to select executable files from the file system?
Best regards, Martin Owens