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How to get the gnome file open dialog back

Asked by Andrew

After upgrading to Jaunty, I see that GVim has a new file open dialog. Even though I am using vim-gnome, it is not using the standard gnome file open dialog. I prefer the gnome one as it has my favorite folders and can show hidden files and such. Is there a way to get this back?

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

You may edit the path here:
.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

To see what opens how:
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/applications

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Andrew (andrew-rw-robinson) said : 		#2

How does this apply? I am not asking what program opens for a MIME type, I am asking how to get the Gnome file open dialog to be used for GVim. In Intripid, if you open the dialog (File > Open) you get the standard gnome dialog, with the gnome shortcuts and such. In Jaunty, GVim opens a custom file open dialog with "Home", "Desktop" and "Documents" icons on the left and clearly isn't using the GTK icon theme.

Not only did I prefer the look of the Gnome dialog, but more importantly, the functionality was better and allowed me to get to my files much easier. For example, I have a lot of my development folders as gnome file bookmarks and I can get to them quickly through gnome, but now in GVim I have lost that ability.

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Andrew (andrew-rw-robinson) said : 		#3

I just found this, so it may be an upstream Vim bug that they are covering up using the old crappy dialog:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/235189

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

Sorry, ignore my answer, was on the wrong path.
Found something via bugs section tab above:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/365860

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