Firefox File SaveAs Dialog

[James McDonald]

> On Fri, 5 May 2006, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>
>> On Friday 05 May 2006 10:42, Net Llama! wrote:
>> > On Fri, 5 May 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> > > > I never just dump stuff in the default $HOME location so why do
>> they
>> > > > make me click the show more twisty?
>> > >
>> > > Just my $.02  but I think the entire GTK file dialog is an
>> abomination.
>> > > And a lot of other people do too.
>> >
>> > agreed.  i remember trying to find a way to avoid this a while back,
>> and
>> > basically you can't if firefox is built against gtk2.
>> completely agreed.  Saving isn't nearly as awful as telling firefox to
>> use a
>> particular app to open a file.  Since most of said apps live in a
>> community
>> of hundreds or thousands of other "friends", simply telling firefox to
>> open
>> the unknown file-type in kate takes forever!  CLUE: Let me type in the
>> location, and maybe even the full file name (since I'd rather not watch
>> while
>> the dialog fills with the contents of /usr/bin)...
>
> yea, that's another peeve I have with firefox.  it insists on using
> defaults and I can't figure out where its getting these defaults from, but
> they suck.
>
>

OK so this thread tells me that a large proportion of advanced/experienced
linux users find this an annoyance. So who do I raise a bug with? I don't
think it's GTK2 because it seems you can launch the dialog expanded. Maybe
I should try one by one. Firefox ... gnome .... etc etc.

Any thoughts on how to get this heard?


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James McDonald
Telarah NSW Australia