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Bug 614370 - The "open file" dialog doesn't treat saved searches as folders
The "open file" dialog doesn't treat saved searches as folders
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFileChooser
2.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
Federico Mena Quintero
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-30 15:27 UTC by Manuel J. Garrido
Modified: 2015-06-21 02:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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2010-03-30 15:27 UTC, Manuel J. Garrido
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Description Manuel J. Garrido 2010-03-30 15:27:38 UTC
Created attachment 157505 [details]
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This bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/bugs/512935

When talking about saved searches, the gnome Desktop User Guide states: "Saved searches behave exactly like regular folders, for example you can open, move or delete files from within a saved search".

That's true in nautilus. But if, using any application's "open file" dialog, you try to open a file located inside a saved search "folder", you can't. In this case the saved search is seen as a regular file, not a folder.

Steps to reproduce.

1.-Inside my home directory I've created a saved search that holds all the pdf files located in any of my folders.

2.- I open evince, and select File>Open to open a pdf file from the previously created saved search "folder".

3.-The "open file" dialog apears.

What I expected to happen:
    I can navigate inside the saved search, as it is like any regular folder, and I open the file.

What happened instead
    I can't navigate inside the saved search
Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2011-01-11 22:18:58 UTC
Has anyone had a chance to look at this yet?
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2015-06-21 02:57:48 UTC
Saved searches were a nautilus feature. I don't think nautilus does that anymore.