Bug with "save as"?

[Paul Smith]

On Feb 12, 2008 3:32 PM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:07:41 +0100, Enrico Tröger
> <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>
> > [...missing filename in GTK save as dialog after changing folders...]
> >
> > > This happens with other GTK+ apps too, like Geany (everyone's favorite
> > > text-editor)
> ;-)
>
> > > I know other apps suffer from the same behavior, but I can't seem to find
> > > another example...
> > mousepad seems to fail in the same way as Geany. I will have a look at
> > this, maybe it's a GTK bug, maybe a bug in using the GTK API or
> > anything completely different ;-).
> IMO it's a misuse of the GTK API, at least in the case of Geany. I'm
> about to change the behaviour for Geany.
> The problem is that GTK offers two different ways to preset the
> filename in the Save As dialog. The one, used by Geany, Mousepad and
> probably Thunderbird, is to set an existing file and it will be
> selected automatically. But when the user changes a folder, the
> filename is no longer valid and will be removed from the file name
> entry. IMO, this isn't a bug but a feature because this method is not
> intended for Save As dialogs but rather for File Open dialogs and there
> this behaviour makes sense.

I would classify it as bug; see the Save As dialog of Firefox: the
reported phenomenon does not occur, well, most of times; other times,
it does occur; no standard and homogeneous behavior.

Paul




> For Save As dialogs, there is another way to preset the filename which
> e.g. epdfview already does and Geany will do it soon. It's about to
> preset the _new_ and desired filename for the _new_ file in the file
> name entry. There is no need that this file already exist. So, IMO
> developers should use gtk_file_chooser_set_current_name for Save As
> dialogs(this function is the second way).
>
> So, it's not really a bug in GTK, only the GTK docs could state the
> above a bit more clearly, IMO.
> Please correct me, if I'm wrong at any point.
>
>
> > But it's probably quite off-topic here.
> Not really since it also affects mousepad and maybe other Xfce apps
> (I like to disagree to myself ;-)).
>
> @Nick: maybe you want to have a look at the GTK docs for
> gtk_file_chooser_set_filename() and gtk_file_chooser_set_current_name
> (). Using gtk_file_chooser_set_current_name() requires much work in the
> application because the path part of an existing filename should be
> stripped and only the basename used, but it increase the usability of
> the dialog significantly, IMO.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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