gpicview "save as" dialogue confusing

[ssn]

Binary package hint: gpicview

In a small usability study where people had to conduct the simple task of opening and saving an image, most ran into major problems with gpicview, because the "save as" dialog does not provide a filename automatically. You have to input the name of the file, otherwise clicking save has no effect.
It also does not put the file extension in the name, although you can specifically choose the filetype.
Because Windows users are used to see no file extensions at all, they can't be expected to write it manually in the filename saving a document where they specifically chose the filetype.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thank you for your bug report. Confirmed.

[ssn (stretter)]

I know that in geek thinking, this is low priority (not stability/security issue), but it seriously stopped 7 out of 10 people from doing anything with gpicview because they did not know how to continue.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Well, it's just a way to categorize the bug. Making it Medium or High will not fix it faster :) Higher priority is more for crashes, or a general bad behavior for essential features.

[Mörgæs (moergaes)]

Still in the daily build of Lubuntu 13.04.

The bug would qualify for papercut status. What is holding the work back?

[Mörgæs (moergaes)]

Still the case in Lubuntu 20.04.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 642978

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

Lubuntu 20.04 LTS uses `lximage-qt` (Qt5) and doesn't use `gpicview` (GTK2) as using deprecated GTK2 software on a LXQt desktop makes little sense.

A quick view of what is found on Lubuntu 20.04's release can be seen with the manifest (https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/focal/daily-live/20220311/focal-desktop-amd64.manifest) where you'll note no inclusion of `gpicview` (it's not a Lubuntu or LXQt app)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gpicview (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]