Native file dialog can make interface freeze

[Peter Gjøl Jensen]

To reproduce, in gnome 3, chose "recently used" and pick a file and press "open".

The interface is unresponsive to any input.

Console output:
Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.NullPointerException
 at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.setFileInternal(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:79)
 at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.run(Native Method)
 at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.showNativeDialog(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:172)
 at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.access$000(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:39)
 at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer$1.run(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:114)

[Mathias Grund Sørensen (mathias.grund)]

This is due to an error in Java (http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7130662 - bug also present in OpenJDK). Fix has been committed but only to JDK8. Not really sure what I can do about it.

[Jiri Srba (srba)]

Well, not much to be done about this in my opinion (except for waiting to JDK8).
I put it on the wish list.

[Kenneth Yrke Jørgensen (yrke)]

TAPAAL trunk now only runs on java 11+