Bug with "save as"?

[Paul Smith]

On Feb 12, 2008 7:22 PM, 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 filename is no longer valid and will be removed from the file name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.

Just filed a bug at bugzilla.gnome.org:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516109

Thanks for your comments and suggestions, Enrico!

Paul