Selecting a folder to save to loses focus on file name

[Scott Ritchie]

This bug has occured multiple times before, however the fixes no longer seem to be working: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/130224, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/22322, and their duplicates.

In short: the task of saving a file is broken as soon as the user chooses a different folder. Typing no longer renames the file but instead starts searching for folders in the list, however the text selecting the filename is still highlighted.

I believe the task of naming a file to save is much more common than having to do a text search to find a folder to save to (they're already alphabetically ordered). Accordingly, the filename should never lose focus, even when the user is active inside the other parts of the file save dialog (eg making/selecting a folder to save to).

To reproduce: in Gedit, make a new file and File->Save as. Click a folder and then start typing. A similar thing happens if you save a picture in Firefox.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 30 01:55:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libgtk2.0-0 2.18.0-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gtk+2.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Trying with the jaunty version gives the same behaviour

[MillenniumBug (millenniumbug)]

This seems to be solved in a fully updated 10.04.

[Vish (vish)]

Bug still present in Lucid.
However I doubt this is a trivially fixable bug.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug is not trivially fixable. Marking invalid for the paper cuts project.