GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 776373
Clicking a folder in save dialog breadcrumps will sometimes not actually save in that folder
Last modified: 2017-09-14 10:40:34 UTC
Created attachment 342367 [details] Video of file save dialog choosing the wrong folder Clicking a folder in save dialog breadcrumps will sometimes not actually save in that folder. Attaching a video where I'm clicking the "Jonas" home folder in the breadcrumps list on top multiple times and then "Extract", and it still picks the inner "Server" folder which is completely unexpected. Since the entire point of the file save dialog is to save where I tell it to, this appears to be a major bug to me. I have run into this issue again and again in many years of using GNOME 3, but I never actually remembered to catch it on camera. So here ya go, and I hope now this will finally be fixed. (or redesigned if for some odd reason this is actually intentional)
Did anyone else ever encounter this? Is it on purpose even? I think I have seen this sporadically happen for a really long time so that I almost got used to it at this point, but it really seems like something worth fixing/addressing.
This bug have been submitted several times from what I found. It has been mentioned as early as 2006: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376121 (at least similar behavior is described there) All the threads about this bug seem inactive and I have almost no hope that it will ever be fixed. Only today I found a workaround - clicking on file name to move focus away from folders and makes everything work as intended.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 376121 ***