Firefox File SaveAs Dialog

James McDonald james
Tue May 16 08:05:16 PDT 2006


For those of you that remember my post regarding the default behaviour 
of the GTK2 FileChooser or `File Save As' dialog. This is the response 
from Firefox

------- Comment #1 from bugzilla at tecnocode.co.uk  2006-05-15 10:21 PDT 
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We can't do this for a couple of reasons:
  - We try to fit in with GTK, and so what GTK does (especially for standard
things such as file dialogs) we should do
  - As far as I know, we can't do much to manipulate the file dialog from
Firefox: it's all done in libgtk code
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The above being the case. I have gone with the fix I saw on the Gentoo 
forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-362497-highlight-.html and 
recompiled my own copy of GTK2 to include an expanded by default file 
save as dialog

Seeing as I'm feeling philanthropic tonight... If anyone else wants to 
use the Patch, SPEC, SRPM, RPM I have posted them here ==> 
http://www.jamesmcdonald.id.au/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,29/

If it doesn't work then it's probably because it was compiled in 
Australia :)






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