"Save As" box loses path information

Binary package hint: abiword

This bug may be more of a Gnome bug than an abiword bug. If so, please redirect it.

When you use File->Save As in abiword, you get the normal Gnome file selector box. It shows files and it asks for a pathname.

So, suppose you type in /tmp/foo.txt into the path name. Then, you realize that "Oh, I want to make sure it's text format, not
encoded text format." So, you go to the lower left and change the "file type" pulldown from "Automatic" to "Text".

Click "OK" and wonder why your file isn't where you wanted it, because when you changed the file type, it erased "/tmp/" from your carefully constructed pathname. It ends up saving the file in whatever directory Abiword chooses as a default rather than where you want it.

This can easily lead to data loss! One of the reasons to change the path is to save a copy in another directory, but the default directory is often the place you saved the most recent, old copy. So, your new save ends up over-writing your old save, and your old save is gone, down into the bit bucket. Not good.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: abiword 2.8.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 15 06:57:42 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: abiword