Bug with "save as"?

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:17:14 +0000, "Paul Smith" <phhs80 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 filename is no longer valid and will be removed from the file name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.
It doesn't happen for me with Firefox.
But if you think it's a bug, report it to the Firefox developers and/or
file it in the GTK bugzilla(bugzilla.gnome.org).
All Geany/Thunderbird/Firefox/... related issues are quite off-topic
here.

Regards,
Enrico

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