edit_where widget for backup path is not editable

Bug #710414 reported by Jeff Fortin Tam
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Bug Description

In settingsdialog.glade, the edit_where widget's "editable" property is False.

Three possible solutions:
- make it editable
- replace it by a label
- replace the two "edit_where" and "btn_where" widgets by a single GtkFileChooserButton (which solves everything in an elegant way). If you want this, I could maybe provide a patch/branch for it. See the attached screenshot to know how it looks like.

Tags: usability
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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote :
Changed in backintime:
status: New → Confirmed
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Dan (danleweb) wrote :

I'm not sure I get the problem:

1. In the beginning I used "GtkFileChooserButton" but I had some problems:
 - There is not way to set an empty value (like never set). This pose problems if you open the dialog and just save it. You may end up with a snapshots folder by default.
 - A simple mouse scroll by error can change it and I think this is dangerous

2. I don't want it editable (at least for now) so can select only valid folders (the dialog allow you to create new folders.

3. I'm not sure about a label but using a read-only editbox allow you to select the text, scroll if it does not feet.

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