GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 398117
unable to choose initial folder in File Chooser (folder picker mode)
Last modified: 2010-04-08 13:59:05 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I use some function in a GTK application which requires a file picker to be opened to choose a folder (e.g. save all atachments in a message (Thunderbird)), if it opens in the folder I want to pick and I click “Open”, it does nothing. If I put . in the address bar, it will say it is unable to create the folder because it already exists. The only workaround I've found is to click in the file list (in a file or blank area) before clicking the “Open” button. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a GTK+ application 2. Use a function which asks you to select a folder 3. Click Open, in the file picker dialog. Actual results: Nothing Expected results: The attachment should be saved in the folder. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
This happens all the time for me, too. Clicking the blank area in the file list doesn't work for me though - it seems to select a folder even though I didnt click on it. What does work for me though, is to click a different folder button, then go back to the folder I was in.
I can confirm this: If the last widget that had focus (before the action area) was the location entry, gtk_file_chooser_default_should_respond() enters save_entry (gtkfilechooserdefault.c:8534) where it checks that the location entry is non-empty. If it's empty, it returns false and the GtkFileChooserDialog will prevent the "response" signal from continuing its emission. Is this really intended?
I get this as wekk, and it comes up in Bug #518045 on file-roller, the effect being that you can't extract the contents of an archive into the directory it was opened from without doing a bit of a dance, whereas it should really be a single click.
Hello, I'd like to confirm this bug (in file-roller), as of now, 2.Feb.2009; you don't have to "dance" around with folders, just change the options in the dialog somehow (click-unclick a box or so). File-Roller: 2.24.3-1 GTK2: 2.14.7-1 OS: Arch Linux x86_64, Enlightenment E17. I'd say it's about time to fix this...
I'm having this bug in Thunderbird (Iceweasel), when doing "Save all" for saving all attachments. You can't pick the initial folder, exactly as described above. I almost filed a bug against Thunderbird, until a guy on its IRC channel found this bug... Please fix this issue... it's very annoying.
s/Iceweasel/Icedove/g (my apologies)
Why is this unconfirmed? This seems to (still) affect all applications that use the gnome folder-chooser dialog.
Unconfirmed doesn't have a meaning in this project. Even if somebody starts working on an issue the status usually doesn't change unless the bug is fixed.
This was fixed in commit b6d9bb6e1e6e916fc2ef25f5729b30ba91979597