210097 - Save As dialogue does not allow me to _type_ in directory name

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Sven Utcke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When saving a file, I can not simply type in the target directory
(/software/inst) but instead have to use the mouse to go up to the root level,
then select /software out of 22 entries (again using the mouse), and finally
selecting /software/inst out of 500 entries (and constantly growing).  This
sucks big time!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use "Save Link Target As"
2. Try to type a directory-name
3. despair.

Actual Results:  
Nothing (well, that's after step 2., step 3. will normally make my heartrate go up).

Expected Results:  
Let my enter Text using the keyboard

Comment 1

[Sven Utcke]

*** Bug 210098 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Sven Utcke]

Ok, to clarify this a bit:

In older versions of Netscape one could type into the field now named "Look in".
 This allowed one to quickly change directory-trees, and then use the mouse to
select directories with only half-remembered names --- say from /home/user to
/software/new_programms/whatever, when saving a tgz of a program.

Current versions only allow you to type into the field named "File Name:". 
While this is better than nothing, it is unfortunately only suitable for short
directory names (/tmp/, say) or really well remembered ones.  Not really useful.

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Is this bug about the fact that when you type the directory name into the filename field, you lose the filename?

Comment 5

[Misak Khachatryan]

Is this bug actual? When i start typing in directory name in KDE, Seamonkey promps full name like address bar completion. This is good and predictable behavior for me.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032401 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

Comment 6

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

reso/incomplete due to no response to c#4 (from 2005).

If comment 4 and/or comment 5 are answered, and this bug is still valid we can work toward what the root problem is, and perhaps try to fix it.

Comment 7

[Sven Utcke]

Well, it's still there in SeaMonkey 1.0.9, don't know about newer versions.

Maybe this is really more a user-Interface change than a real bug:

* In Old versions of Netscape, you could type in the directory in the directory box.
* In all modern versions (which I've seen) you need to type the directory as part of the filename.  Which is doable, but less comfortable, and less consistent (unless we are talking consistency with other bad user interfaces.

Does this help?

Sven

Comment 8

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Well, the fact that it is still present in SeaMonkey 1.0.9 helps some, can you upgrade to SeaMonkey 1.1.8 (or .9 which is due out later today) from: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

And test again, once tested come back here and let us know?

After you test, if the problem still exists, could you please give us exact steps to reproduce.

To use a very simple example, that does not really apply here:
Launch seamonkey.
Click in the urlbar to focus.
Type "www.google.com"
press "enter"

Expect) A textbox to appear in the page, for searches.

Actual) A giant picture of a Firefox and no textbox.

...

The key in the explanation is you are very exact in your steps.

Thank You!