615155 - When saving a message, "Save in folder" is greyed out in the pop-up gnome directory browser

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[JD]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100723 Fedora/3.6.7-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.7
Build Identifier: thunderbird-3.1.6-2.fc13.i686

When wanting to save a message to some location outside of thuderbird
File -> Save as
TB pops up the gnome directory browser to select a location
where the user can save the message.
This gnome browser has the "Save in folder" bar greyed out, which
is a huge hassle. I might add here that since TB shared backend code
with FF, the same problem exists in FF when saving a download or a
web page.
Often, I know exactly where to save the file or message or the download
and I would like to quickly type it in the "Save in folder" bar
rather than keep clicking the directories as the user is forced to
sometimes browse through 8 directories or more before arriving
at the directory where the message is to be saved. Often these
intermediate directories are very highly populated, and then one
must scroll to get to the right one.
Please re-enable the "Save in folder" bar in the gnome directory browser.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to save a message
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
gnome directory browser has the "Save in folder" bar greyed out.

Expected Results:  
Be able to type the full pathname of the target directory in
the "Save in folder" bar.

Comment 1

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

As far as I can see, when collapsing "Browse for other folders" enables the box. This happens in gedit, pitivi and GIMP too (and all other apps that use the GTK+ file chooser too I would assume). Strongly suspecting this is therefore a GTK+ bug, so closing as Invalid.
You can file bugs against GTK+ here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk%2B

Comment 2

[JD]

I disagree.
For example, using Firefox:
File -> Open File

does not grey out the bar "Location", which serves a similar function as
"Save in Folder", is not greyed out.

So, just guessing, could it be that the parameters used in opening the dialogue
for saving a file are incorrect, or incomplete?

Thanx.

Comment 3

[JD]

Opened Bug 636803in GNOME Bugzilla.

Comment 4

[JD]

Here is what gnome support said:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636803
  gtk+ | gtk | 1.2.x

Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) <jjardon> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
         Resolution|                            |OBSOLETE

--- Comment #1 from Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) <[e-mail]> 2010-12-08 21:52:14 UTC ---
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore.
GTK+ developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there
will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use.

By upgrading to a newer version of GTK+ you could receive bug fixes and new
functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a
newer version of GTK+.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer
version of GTK+.

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Well, guess Fedora and other distros that have nothing newer are screwed :(
For Fedora users, there is no newer rpm for gtk+ than  gtk+-1.2.10-70.fc13.i686