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tonymaro at gmail

Aug 6, 2007, 11:08 AM

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Make file open browse root tree?

Is there a way to make the file open dialog browse the entire tree, either
by specifying something in sourcecode, or a secret trick to get the existing
dialog to show everything?

On a side note, I dropped my n800 for the first time this morning. It slid
out of it's silly little case about 2.5 feet to the carpet (the leather case
I ordered still isn't here.) It knocked my screen alignment out of whack so
bad that nothing worked, including the screen alignment utility (Which kept
telling me to click closer to the mark).

I was able to correct the alignment partly by aligning it in stages
(clicking ever closer to the mark each time) but it still never made the
right edge quite right, despite clicking exactly on the targets in the
alignment tool. The right side scrollbars for Opera where completely
unusable, but the left edge of the screen worked perfect.

I ended up having to reflash it, and then everything was perfect again. Now
I just have to finish re-installing my apps...

markku.vire at movial

Aug 7, 2007, 12:44 AM

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Re: Make file open browse root tree? [In reply to]

Hi,

Tony Maro wrote:
> Is there a way to make the file open dialog browse the entire tree,
> either by specifying something in sourcecode, or a secret trick to get
> the existing dialog to show everything?

Try defining MYDOCSDIR environment variable in the context of desired
process. See /etc/osso-af-init/af-defines.sh.

-Markku-
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tonymaro at gmail

Aug 9, 2007, 7:41 AM

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Re: Make file open browse root tree? [In reply to]

On 8/6/07, Austin Che <austin [at] csail> wrote:
>
>
> > Is there a way to make the file open dialog browse the entire tree,
> either
> > by specifying something in sourcecode, or a secret trick to get the
> existing
> > dialog to show everything?
>
> Something like this works for me:
> cd MyDocs; ln -s / root

I've learned that this is a BAD thing to do - sends the metalayer-crawler
into an endless loop and sucks your battery dry.

That explains why I've had issues since doing this with both responsiveness
and battery life...

eero.tamminen at nokia

Aug 9, 2007, 8:20 AM

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Re: Make file open browse root tree? [In reply to]

Hi,

ext Tony Maro wrote:
> On 8/6/07, Austin Che <austin [at] csail> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to make the file open dialog browse the entire tree,
>> either
>>> by specifying something in sourcecode, or a secret trick to get the
>> existing
>>> dialog to show everything?
>> Something like this works for me:
>> cd MyDocs; ln -s / root
>
>
> I've learned that this is a BAD thing to do - sends the metalayer-crawler
> into an endless loop and sucks your battery dry.

There's a bug about that in Maemo bugzilla. It will be fixed to
the next release.

(I thought it had been fixed for the latest release along with handling
of badly corrupted MMCs, but just noticed that the patches for these had
been post-poned for later.)

> That explains why I've had issues since doing this with both responsiveness
> and battery life...

If you avoid linking recursive directory structures (/, /sys, /dev...
and of course /home because MyDocs is there) you should be fine. I.e.
just add more/direct symlinks to places about which you're actually
interested about. :-)

- Eero
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