Firefox File SaveAs Dialog

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 05 May 2006 18:31, James McDonald wrote:
> > 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?

I would love to get it heard......  and will help where possible.   I suppose 
a (mild) complaint to the Firefox people would be a start....  and then to 
the GTK people.   It really sucks, is not very intuitive, and certainly is 
counter to most other GUI interfaces.  It not helping Linux get converts at 
all.