Ubuntu
gtk+2.0 package

no focus on file name in save-as dialog

Bug #230618 reported by Mathias Menzer on 2008-05-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #130224: gtkfilechooser save/save as dialog misplaces focus. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
GTK+	Confirmed	Unknown	gnome-bugs #534462
One Hundred Papercuts	New	Undecided	Unassigned
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gedit

When you open the save-as dialogue in gedit, the focus appears to be in the filename input-field, as the filename is highlited. However when you start typing the focus is in the "folder-overview" field, and you get a little box at the bottom right where your typing goes.

Ubuntu 8.04
gedit 2.22.1-0ubuntu1

Since this already occured in evince (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/194382), maybe this could be a problem of some other gtk2-apps too.

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blue9 (blue9) wrote on 2008-05-24:

Unconfirming.

I can't reproduce this behavior on Ubuntu hardy.
I tried with the following combinations :
- named and unnamed files
- many tabs and only one with text file in it or with empty documents
- file in local hard disk and files in samba shares

In any case, the filename is always highligted and the keyboard focus is on it.
When I type, the highlighted part of the file name disappears and typed characters replace it.

Furthermore https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/194382 is announced fixed in Hardy.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-05-25:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in gedit:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Invalid

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2009-01-26:

Reopening, and confirming, in Intrepid. It's highly annoying. You have to do a specific step to reproduce it - click save as, then click on one of the favorite folders (eg Pictures) at the bottom on the left.

From then on, when you type, your letters are entered into a really stupid search field among your favorites (even though all are visible on the screen), sometimes causing you to save to the wrong folder (and with the wrong filename)