[scribus] "Open Existing" dialog never displays anything

[D. R. Evans]

Gregory Pittman said the following at 10/09/2012 09:20 AM :

>>
>> It looks to me like whatever call is used to obtain the information that is
>> supposed to be put into the dialog is simply hanging, so the information is
>> never available to display on the screen.
> 
> Try changing the directory setting in Preferences and see if that makes
> any difference.
> 

I assumed that you meant:

Edit | Preferences | General | Documents

When I do that and hit the "Change" button... I get a "Choose a Directory"
window that never populates.

That, presumably, is a big, fat, hairy clue to the cognoscenti.

  Doc

PS FWIW, the actual entry currently in the Documents part of the dialog is my
home directory: /home/n7dr.

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