This is a very irritating thing, and should be easy to solve. The fix is just changing initial focus! Hard to understand this has been open for 12 years now.
There's even a risk of data loss by unintentionally overwriting a file when one types, *as it works just fine on all other OS*, the filename to save the file as and hits return... overwriting some other file that just happened to "match" the "filter". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387957 Title: Improve Save As Dialog Box (focus issues) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/387957/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
