From 09a65e631a6294643ba3d7453e3f82ada0da2fbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?V=C3=A1clav=20Slav=C3=ADk?= <vslavik@fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:50:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] be user friendly on Unix and expand the / node automatically

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@29966 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
---
 src/generic/dirctrlg.cpp | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/generic/dirctrlg.cpp b/src/generic/dirctrlg.cpp
index 7a5d5a8d36..791b3a97a0 100644
--- a/src/generic/dirctrlg.cpp
+++ b/src/generic/dirctrlg.cpp
@@ -551,8 +551,19 @@ bool wxGenericDirCtrl::Create(wxWindow *parent,
     ExpandDir(m_rootId); // automatically expand first level
 
     // Expand and select the default path
-    if (!m_defaultPath.IsEmpty())
+    if (!m_defaultPath.empty())
+    {
         ExpandPath(m_defaultPath);
+    }
+#ifdef __UNIX__
+    else
+    {
+        // On Unix, there's only one node under the (hidden) root node. It
+        // represents the / path, so the user would always have to expand it;
+        // let's do it ourselves
+        ExpandPath(wxT("/"));
+    }
+#endif
 
     SetBestSize(size);
     DoResize();
-- 
2.47.2