"save as" should provide current name and file extension

[Henning Sprang]

Binary package hint: eog

When a user choses "save as" - for example when saving a file downloaded from the internet, he should be provided with the current name to edit it.

This is important for users not very computer-save, as they otherwise fail to add a correct filename extension - and for more experienced users it's convenient, as often one wants only change the name a little bit

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/eog
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: eog 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eog
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, well gimp and gthumb does that, they put the current name on the name entry, confirming will look upstream, thanks you.

[Roland Neary (abcccc)]

The bug I ran into in EOG's 'Save As' dialog was very similar to this one. I tried to save an image opened from a web page viewed in epiphany with the only available option 'Save As' . The file I viewed was called fj54oyj45.tmp, trying to save it to a name without file extension proved impossible. To avoid advertently converting the image to another filetype I had to go back and figure out what it was before saving it again.

Eye of Gnome is too focused on file extensions (e.g. .png, .svg, .jpg) rather than mime-type hence this problem occurs both when saving files as when opening them. Theres a bug about that too:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/172416

That turned out to be a known bug in Eye of Gnome and the link to the EOG bug was provided:

bug-comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/172416/comments/2
eog bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490067

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report Henning Sprang , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Henning Sprang (henning)]

Hi,

Thanks for the question.

as I'm quite short on time at the moment and don't have Narwhal running
yet anywhere, I'm unlikely to be able to test it in the next month or
even more.

So I'm happy to close the bug - I'll reopen or add it as new should I
stumble on the problem again.

Thanks,
Henning

On 07/11/2011 06:24 PM, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> Thanks for the report Henning Sprang , It has been a long time without
> any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that
> the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the
> latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective
> comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your
> help.
>
> ** Changed in: eog (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: eog (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) => (unassigned)
>

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[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Based on the reporter's last comment, and as it seems to work as expected in Precise, I am setting this to Fix released.
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