Saving files with restricted characters - No Warning

[ttk1opc]

When saving a file in seemingly any program, if you use an unacceptable character in the filename such as my/file.txt rather then getting a warning saying you cannot use / in a filename nothing at all happens, the file doesn't save and the user is given no explanation as to why. This might be confusing to some users who don't know they can't use that character and will just assume something is wrong.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

This has been fixed upstream.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug seems to have been fixed in gtk trunk only, could you ask federico to commit to gtk-2-24 as well?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue got fixed in gtk3 in natty, it's still an issue with gtk2 though

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the commit fixing that is that one, http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=a4a2d7618250407fa78cb5cd3184b7d20a11a7e8

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+2.0 - 2.24.3-0ubuntu2

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gtk+2.0 (2.24.3-0ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/061_use_pdf_as_default_printing_standard.patch:
    - really clean that deprecated patch this time
  * debian/patches/094_git_fileselector_error.patch:
    - backported gtk3 commit to display errors when users try to enter
      names with an invalid character (lp: #615505)
  * debian/patches/095_git_menus_scrolling.patch:
    - backported gtk3 commit to fix menu scrolling issues (lp: #548652)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:28:06 +0100