GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 159143
Drop-down box behavior
Last modified: 2004-11-23 09:37:53 UTC
In the "save image" dialog, the folder drop-down box shows a scrollable list if the dialog is higher than the default list size. Oddly, the list box that appears is still large enough to fit the list (and has been moved down since it won't fit above the the folder select button), yet the list still must be scrolled to display all of the items. The file-type selection list in the "open image" dialog is similar. It seems that a list box should be filled with as much as it will fit to begin with, and only offer scrolling if the items won't fit in the current screen resolution.
the behaviour is intentional. If you dislike it, you can change it in your gtkrc (you want to tell combo-boxes to appear as lists). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129463 ***