GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 56261
save dialog cannot retain filename in another directory
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
when saving a file (image or otherwise), the filename is by default present in the save dialog box. as soon as i change directories, it vanishes. i can't even use the old netscape trick of arriving at my target directory, cancelling, and then saving it right there - it returns to the dir where i started. imho, there is no reason for the filename to disappear when changing directories. of course i'm not saving everything in the same directory, and i want to preserve the filenames of 95% of the things i save.
It's a gtk file dialog problem. It should be fixed there
[Suggest moving to NEEDINFO] This is *deeply* irritating, and blocks 62511 :) Can a workaround be found for this in Galeon? It doesn't help that the Gnome file save dialog seems to have just now broken filename wildcarding when tab is pressed, which used to be a good user workaround (type, e.g. "~/imag*/crazy/" before the filename, and hit tab, and the dialog would put you in the right directory with the current filename :-) I'm going to investigate this further just because it's so irritating. It does seem to be a bug in the Gnome file selector (or whichever file selector is being chosen by galeon's GFilePicker::Show(), probably the Gnome one).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6791 ***