Bug 394260

Summary:	palapeli doesn't respect caja preferences
Product:	[Applications] palapeli	Reporter:	shirish agarwal <shirishag75>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stefan Majewsky <majewsky>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	iandw.au, kde-games-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	the browse feature to find picture to create puzzle from. partial view of caja in mate desktop via palapeli

Description shirish agarwal 2018-05-14 20:34:22 UTC

I am running palapeli under mate. I have put preferences in caja (the file explorer in mate 1.20.0) to show hidden files and folders. But if I try to create a new puzzle using caja, it doesn't show me the hidden files and folders. 

In caja itself, it shows the hidden files and folders itself. I dunno whether it's an issue in caja or palapeli.  I'm sharing attachments of the whole thing, maybe somebody can better understand it better than me.

Comment 1 shirish agarwal 2018-05-14 20:35:11 UTC

Created attachment 112655 [details]
the browse feature to find picture to create puzzle from.

Comment 2 shirish agarwal 2018-05-14 20:35:51 UTC

Created attachment 112656 [details]
partial view of caja in mate desktop via palapeli

Comment 3 shirish agarwal 2018-05-14 20:36:22 UTC

As can be seen, no hidden directories can't be seen.

Comment 4 Ian Wadham 2018-05-15 02:23:52 UTC

As mentioned in my reply to your report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394256, re EXIF, Palapeli uses a KDE or Qt library file-dialog to find an image file, as do other apps based on KDE or Qt.

I do not know what caja and mate are, but they are not supported in Palapeli, nor is any other specific file manager or desktop. The idea is to have portability of the app across operating systems and desktops.

The image Palapeli is looking for should not be in a hidden file or directory.

The puzzles it creates are in a special file format and are stored in a special directory in your user-area. You can find and view these files from your desktop and command-line or file manager, but editing them may destroy your puzzle.