Comment 13 for bug 181788

I think gnome-bugs #540788 (<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540788>) is related, if not exactly the same. If anybody's grovelling around in the code, could they take a peek at this as well?

From my comment on gnome-bugs:

"This bug drives me nuts on a fairly regular basis, I think the usual scenario
is when you want to save a file in the parent directory of the default
directory (the one which is displayed when the file selector is first shown):
clicking on the parent in the path bar (is that the right terminology?) changes
directory but leaves the subdir selected, so clicking save changes to the
subdir instead.

However, this doesn't happen consistently - it's only a problem if the focus is
on the file list and not the file name entry box, and I don't understand why
this is sometimes different. Is it something to do with the application
behaviour?"