import files from Directory problem..

[Rory]

Version 5.4, installed using apt-get, Xubuntu 14.04LTS.

The 'import files from directory' function doesn't seem to work any more. The import folder is fixed and can't be changed. Am I missing something, or has something changed. I was using 5.1 for the past year or so.

Rory.

[eranif]

I see what you mean.
Looks like when selecting a folder from the 'list' is not changing the content.
However, if you select it using the 'Other...' than it will work

snapshot.png

It is now fixed in git head.

Eran

[DavidGH]

Hi,

I see what you mean. Even if you use the field above to navigate to a different dir, the result doesn't 'take' in the select-dirs field.

This works fine on debian wheezy, but not on e.g. ubuntu saucy and trusty. I suspect it's a due to a change in the underlying gtk+ control that's being used in more recent systems (did you upgrade your Xubuntu version at the same time as the dialog started failing?).

I'll look into it.

Regards,

David

[eranif]

but not on e.g. ubuntu saucy and trusty

FYI: the above screenshot was taken on Trusty/KDE/GTK2

Eran

[Rory]

I took a shot at building from source but got caught out with wxWidgets. Following the instructions online I did:

apt-key adv --fetch-keys http://repos.codelite.org/CodeLite.asc
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://repos.codelite.org/wx3.0trusty/ trusty universe'
sudo apt-get update
apt-get install libwxbase3.0-0-unofficial libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-0-unofficial libwxgtk3.0-dev wx3.0-headers wx-common libwxbase3.0-dbg

but it resulted in this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libwxbase3.0-0-unofficial
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libwxbase3.0-0-unofficial'
E: Unable to locate package libwxgtk3.0-0-unofficial
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libwxgtk3.0-0-unofficial'
E: Unable to locate package libwxbase3.0-dbg
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libwxbase3.0-dbg'

Any ideas?

[DavidGH]

Some of the package names are different for trusty. I've just updated the documentation to make that clear.

Of course synaptic-users didn't have a problem .

[Rory]

Thanks guys, building and working now without any issues.