From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-12-20T16:59:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41744] Re: Feature : optional argument in File.join

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:17, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> (11/12/20 15:55), Nikolai Weibull wrote:

>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:12, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

>>>> http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Gtk%3A%3AFileSelection
>>>>
>>>> which says :
>>>>
>>>> filename=(filename)
>>>> �� �� Sets a default path for the file requestor. If filename includes a
>>>> directory path, then the requestor will open with that path as its
>>>> current working directory. The encoding of filename is the on-disk
>>>> encoding, which may not be UTF-8. See GLib.filename_from_utf8.

>>> It's a bug of that ruby binding. ��It should absorb such platform
>>> differences.

>> Well, it���s actually a problem with Gtk, not the Ruby binding for it.

> I meant, if Gtk doesn't accept slashes as file separators, then the
> binding library has to convert them.

It isn���t the binding���s job to perform such platform-specific
conversions.  This is, as far as I can tell, a misfeature in Gtk that
should be fixed there, not in the bindings.

More importantly, however, is that Gtk::FileSelection has been
superseded by Gtk::FileChooser, so I don���t think that the Gtk
developers will work on this.  Gtk::FileChooser seems to support
slashes:

require 'gtk2'

Gtk::FileChooserDialog.new.set_filename('/Windows').show_all
Gtk.main