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Bug 320690 - GtkFileChooser should check writability
GtkFileChooser should check writability
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFileChooser
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gtk-bugs
Federico Mena Quintero
: 327708 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-04 12:01 UTC by Christian Persch
Modified: 2018-02-10 03:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Christian Persch 2005-11-04 12:01:58 UTC 
If the file or the directory it's in is not writable, it's no use prompting the
user whether he wants to replace it!
Comment 1 Federico Mena Quintero 2007-01-25 17:09:40 UTC 
*** Bug 327708 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Murray Cumming 2007-01-27 18:32:30 UTC 
My text from the duplicate bug, because it's not exactly what this bug talks about:
"
I think the FileChooser should not allow the user to specify a path in a
read-only directory. It should tell the user that he does not have rights to
add files to that directory and let him choose a different path instead.

Otherwise, the application has to do this, and applications will do it
inconsistently.
"
Comment 3 Murray Cumming 2007-01-27 18:36:57 UTC 
Bug #137515 is kind of a duplicate of this too. It suggests graying-out read-only locations.
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2018-02-10 03:42:50 UTC 
We're moving to gitlab! As part of this move, we are closing bugs that haven't seen activity in more than 5 years. If this issue is still imporant to you and
still relevant with GTK+ 3.22 or master, please consider creating a gitlab issue
for it.