The bug has been periodically tripping me up for years, but recently I
discovered that it has basically stopped my elderly uncle from using
Libreoffice (which defaults to GTK file picker on Xubuntu at least) on
bionic. Priority really needs to be higher, at least if the intent is
for Ubuntu to be usable by non-power users. To be honest, I felt
actually embarrassed when I realized that the standard process for
saving a file in a non-default folder ("Save As..", click folder, type
filename) is broken. Particularly as, as mentioned above, the highlight
in the text entry is misleading.At the risk of sounding like I'm sulking, going to have to seriously consider moving my - and all my family's - machines to a non-gtk based desktop environment if upstream's attitude to a significant usability bug like this is to just ignore it for years. An ubuntu-specific patch would at least reduce the urgency somewhat! I'd settle for an option (gtk.ini or whatever) to disable the search functionality if that would help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1878076 Title: GTK save-dialogs input-focus moves from filename to file search if a folder is selected Status in GTK+: New Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: This bug is also reported on GNOME's GTK GitLab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/326 ## Steps to reproduce 1. Open any GTK app which uses save dialogs (e.g. gedit) 2. Press save 3. A save dialog appears and the filename is highlighted (if typing at this point you edit the file name) 4. Click on a different folder (e.g. Downloads) 5. The filename is still highlighted, hinting that the focus is still there 6. Type and find yourself searching for a file in the selected folder -- Current behavior -- The higlighting (on the file name) hints a focus which is not the actual input focus, and the actual input focus (the search bar) is hidden until one starts to type, which I think to be confusing and unexpected. Also, clicking back on the highlighted filename you lose the highlighting, so you have to highlight again some already highlighted text; I think this to be confusing and counterintuitive. -- Expected outcome -- Highlighting and focus need to match. If they don't that's a UX bug, and there are several options to solve it, some examples: - keep highlighting as is and keep focus on the filename, this whould require finding a different path for file search (I think this is the most productive option, because I assume a user wants to change the folder and eventually rename or name the file, which I consider more likely than a user wanting to search for a file within a save-file dialog); - keep filesearch as is, but show its bar before typing begins, and remove any highlighting from filename. For reference, Windows 10's native save-file dialogs disables the highlighting when clicking on a different folder. Typing does nothing at that point. Tested on gedit 3.36.1 on Ubuntu 20.04. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: libgtk-3-0 3.24.18-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Mon May 11 21:53:37 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-03 (37 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200401) SourcePackage: gtk+3.0 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2020-05-04T10:26:46.106768 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/1878076/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
