Bad user experience: Missing "recent documents" in save dialogs

[Gerd Stolpmann]

Ubuntu 16.04, evolution-3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.

Open an email with an attachment, and click on the button to save the attachment. A file chooser dialog appears. The bug is that it is not possible to select the recently used documents.

Note that other gtk-3 file dialogs show the recently used documents even in save dialogs. Evolution-3.18 seemed to have disabled this feature although it is super-practical when you want to save many files (e.g. email attachments) to the same directory. Earlier versions of evolution supported this.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Can you give examples of apps that show 'Recent' in the Save dialog?

I checked Text Editor (gedit) in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and it shows 'Recent' for Open but not for Save.

[Gerd Stolpmann (gerd-f)]

Just had another look. So, my original statement that other gtk-3 apps show "Recent" for Save is probably wrong (also checked eog and evince). Not sure what made me believe that. Only gtk-2 apps do (e.g. gimp, inkscape, chromium, libreoffice, all checked under Ubuntu 16.04).

Nevertheless, it's an inconsistency of the user experience.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Are you talking about recent directories or specific file names?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/751653

[Valentas (vk-registrator)]

I would much prefer having the "Recently used" folder in "Save"/"Save as" dialog like in LibreOffice, Inkscape, Gimp.