GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 784778
GtkFileChooserDialog: typing should not initiate a search
Last modified: 2018-05-02 18:42:31 UTC
When you save a new file and start navigating in the directories, after you find the directory where you want to save the file and when you start typing, instead of naming the file it just start searching. I think it should be not like this. Thanks
This is the GNOME model of what typing should do unless focus is specifically in a different text box, so I doubt it will be changed. Fwiw, I agree it's clumsy, though. I'm sure I saw a report about this before and will try to find it.
I think it should be an exception on file save dialog. IMHO what would you expect if there is file save dialog, should you do a file search?
If you want to search for the destination folder, then maybe? :) 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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 775861 ***
reopening; this is not really a dupe of the reports about confusing theming, but rather a request for different behaviour
(In reply to Daniel Boles from comment #3) > If you want to search for the destination folder, then maybe? :) > > 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. Yes, I tried to fix that behaviour in bug 746202 , but to no avail.
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