Bug 184896

Summary: entering full paths for file to save only takes dialog box to desired directory
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, oren, rleigh
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Shriramana Sharma 2009-02-19 07:53:05 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Steps to reproduce:

Open KWrite (or some KDE application that can save files like Kate or Okteta).
Type something.
Press Ctrl+S or goto File menu and select Save or Save As.

You get the Save As dialog box.
Type /tmp/moo (assuming it does not exist) -- you want to create a new file.
Press Enter.

Current Behaviour:

The file is not directly saved to that path and filename (though it is valid). Instead the dialog box is taken to display the corresponding directory (/tmp in this case).

Expected Behaviour:

The file should be directly saved with that path and filename.

Other comments:

If I type the path of an existing file, the proper overwrite confirmation dialog is shown. Only when I type path of non-existing file this bug appears.

If I type a bad filename (but the path exists) in the Open File dialog, I am taken to the appropriate directory which is meaningful, since I may have done some typo in the filename. However, the same should not happen with Save File dialog since I am going to create new file.
Comment 1 Shriramana Sharma 2009-04-12 20:30:23 UTC 
Hello, did anyone see this big bug?! Sorry for the ping, but wanted to draw attention to what I feel is a non-trivial loss of functionality.
Comment 2 Oren Held 2009-04-29 23:53:54 UTC 
I've also noticed that. This bug needs attention... add some votes.
Comment 3 Oren Held 2009-04-29 23:55:07 UTC 
Also, I'm using v4.2.2
Comment 4 Roger Leigh 2009-05-20 00:24:05 UTC 
Confirmed on Debian with KDE 4.2.2

Any attempt to enter a filename to save by its absolute path (e.g. /tmp/file.txt) will just change the view to /tmp and clear the location (losing the file.txt entirely, requiring it to be typed in again!).  Strangely, entering a relative path works just fine.


Regards,
Roger
Comment 5 Dario Andres 2009-05-20 19:58:24 UTC 
@Shriramana Sharma: yout report was filed multiple times. One of them (bug 184894) was marked as duplicate of bug 180208. Let's continue the tracking of that bug there. Thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 180208 ***