GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 775861
name field in save dialog is default but typed text goes into the file search field
Last modified: 2017-08-23 20:35:20 UTC
Created attachment 341651 [details] screencast showing the problem gtk3-3.22.4-1.fc25.x86_64 nautilus-3.22.1-1.fc25.x86_64 gedit-3.22.0-2.fc25.x86_64 Problem: New gedit document, click on the save button, and in the file chooser dialog, the name field is highlighted in blue with default name "Untitled Document 1" but when I start typing a replacement file name, the non-selected search field is where my typed text goes. This is unexpected and a departure with UI/Ux norms that the highlight and active field is where the user input should go. To work around this I have to explicitly select the file name field. This bug is old, it's not a regression, it goes back at least to Fedora 23.
I can confirm this bug. I'm using Fedora 24. gtk3-3.20.9-1.fc24.x86_64 nautilus-3.20.3-1.fc24.x86_64 gedit-3.20.2-1.fc24.x86_64 The following steps behave as expected: - Open a blank gedit - Click on the save button - Start typing - the file name changes (correct behavior) The following steps produce the bug: - Open a blank gedit - Click on the save button - Click on a folder in the left-hand column - Start typing - a search starts (bug) This is what Chris Murphy's video shows.
*** Bug 784778 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
quoting myself from the other bug: > I bet half of our reports about this and closely related issues would be > solved by greying or dimming the selection highlight on the inactive name > entry. While the behaviour is definitely debatable, I think it's the > appearance that makes things seem worse than they are; although the Entry > loses its blue border, the text stays the same colour, so if you're not > consciously thinking about the potential difference, it's easy to think the > Entry still has the keyboard focus. to be clear: I'm not saying it's necessarily 100% fine that everything else steals focus on click, but the visual design really doesn't help here either.
*** Bug 770410 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 770941 ***