GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167527
'Save as' file name with no extension causes crash on Windows
Last modified: 2008-01-15 12:47:56 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. Use the Save As Dialog, save a graphic with the default filename that comes up (UNTITLED). 2. 3. Stack trace: Other information: The bug could be fixed easily by changing the default SAVE AS name to UNTITLED.XCF instead of just UNTITLED. This seems like a good safety idea anyway, so that is someone is careless and uses the default graphic name, at least it will maintain the layers.
This bug happened on a Windows 98SE system. I know Win 9x systems are not supported, but I think having an extension on the default graphic is logical for ALL Operating Systems.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165684 ***
Not so fast -- there is still a crash going on. This reminds me a lot of bug #163740. Reporter, does it appear that a box with an error message tries to come up?
Doesn't crash here. I get an error message "Unknow filetype".
Of course it doesn't crash. The summary of this bug report is completely misleading (thanks, Nathan). The crash that the user was seeing is just another occurence of bug #112401. Can't this stupid Wimp theme finally be removed from the installer if it is causing so much trouble...?
Bug reporter, please uninstall the GTK+ theme that has been installed from the GIMP installer. It contains hardcoded fonts which can, under some circumstances, trigger bug #112401, causing the application to crash. This is triggered by harmless informative message dialogs such as the one you get when saving without an extension.
I'll leave it up to the bug reporter to decide whether he wants his report to become a duplicate of bug #112401 or rather bug #165684. Please choose one.
Sven, once again you're out of line with the sarcastic comments. The summary is in no way misleading. You mistake a suggested solution for the bug report. THe report is that it crashed. The solution proposed is to change the default filename (which is a good idea in its own right, but doesn't solve the underlying problem.) You're right in that it's probably bug #163740, which is one of the many manifestations of bug #112401, but without further info from the reporter, it's impossible to say for sure, thus the request for info and the NEEDINFO status.
AFAIK this theme is now part of GTK+ and the default on Win32...
About time that we get an installer with GTK+-2.6 then. If the theme is part of GTK+, we can at least fix it (if that hasn't been done already when it was included).
Sorry if my bug report was unclear. We received two warning/error dialogs in Windows 98SE. One discussing the "San Serif" font issue, which then leads to a second dialog and forced closure of GIMP. If the exact messages are needed, I will reproduce the messages tomorrow in my lab. My suggested solution (more of a workaround I guess) was to simply have an extension added to the default "UNTITLED" file name provided by GIMP. We (my students and I) found that we did not get the error when we added .XCF, .GIF, or some other appropriate extension to the filename. It further seemed to me that if GIMP were to have a default, UNTITLED.XCF would be a safer default that would help avoid silly user mistakes like forgetting an extension.
Error messages are the same as those mentioned in bug #163740
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163740 ***
Closing as a duplicate of bug #112401. Bug #163740 is resolved INVALID. It doesn't make any sense to resolve this one as a duplicate of an invalid report. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112401 ***
Dan, your suggestion has already been taken care of (see bug #165684). GIMP 2.4 will automatically add the .xcf extension if none is specified.