De-canonicalize paths for file and directory path preferences.

Undo Qt's "helpful" canonicalization of paths returned by the file
dialogs to use / as the pathname component separator rather than using
the native pathname component separator.

Bug: 12117
Change-Id: I6077191a2204574ca50f53b5424f7f421db33db3
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/14109
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ui/qt/preferences_dialog.cpp b/ui/qt/preferences_dialog.cpp
index f8c16f83dc..0908901783 100644
--- a/ui/qt/preferences_dialog.cpp
+++ b/ui/qt/preferences_dialog.cpp
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ void PreferencesDialog::on_advancedTree_itemActivated(QTreeWidgetItem *item, int
             }
             if (!filename.isEmpty()) {
                 g_free((void *)pref->stashed_val.string);
-                pref->stashed_val.string = qstring_strdup(filename);
+                pref->stashed_val.string = qstring_strdup(QDir::toNativeSeparators(filename));
                 updateItem(*item);
             }
             break;