filechoosers auto complete selection stolen by clipboard programs

Howdy manu,

Thank you for the bug report, I cannot seem to reproduce this bug..

I have made two files.. /home/alex/foofoobar & /home/alex/foobarbar

I have used the dialogue box to enter the path to /home/alex and then when I select f and hit tab nothing occurs and I have to manually input the rest of the string.. Can you confirm that this happens every time across multiple websites, incidentally I think this is more a problem with the browse feature which is not just Firefox specific if this is indeed a problem..

Thanks again, Alex.

Hi Alex,

I am using firefox in Edgy. You don't need to press tab, autocompletion should show you foo when you write f if there is no other files in /home/alex that start with f (it does for me). Then, you write b and it auto-completes to foobarbar. Then you hit enter to accept this and the filename turns out to be just foo.

Moreover, I can reproduce it also in Dapper just here in launchpad. Click in Browse in the Include attachment thing. The press Ctrl+L to bring up the Open Location dialog (in Edgy this is always shown). Then write Exa and it will autocomplete to Examples/ and put the cursor after the slash, then write k and it will autocomplete to kubuntu-leaflet.png then hit enter and it will try to open Examples/k . I can reproduce this as often as I wish.

Howdy manu,

I can reproduce this, however I am unsure of exactly what the expected behaviour should be here, what would you do to change this, because in all honesty I cannot see a viable method of selecting past there without having to manually type in the next letter, which appears to work perfectly, as a result of this I am going to close this as will not fix.

If you can provide a solution to this problem then feel free to reopen it, however I cannot see how this behaviour can be changed to select the correct file..

Thanks again, Alex.

The expected behaviour is that if an existing file is shown in the input file and I hit enter, then I want to select that file and not the string up the last key pressed. I think we are not understanding each other here. Let me explain again.

I write: Exa
Filedialog shows: Examples/
I write: k
Filedialog shows: Examples/kubuntu-leaflet.png
I hit ENTER to select that file and I get the following error:
Could not retrieve information about the file
Error getting information for '/home/manu/Examples/k': No such file or directory

This is here in launchpad and in gmail in Dapper's Firefox. I can post screenshots of each step if you wish.

If you don't know how to fix it (because it is a problem of GTK), at least don't reject it or move it to GTK.

I mean, it is such an obvious bug and so easy to reproduce that it is certainly discouraging that you just close the bug.

OK. I will do it myself. I have just reproduced the bug in Synaptic, so I guess that it is a general GTK bug.

(Argh, I am looking forward to the day that applications will use the dialogs of the DE they are running on, instead of the particular toolkit they use to show their GUI, or at least a firefox version using KDE dialogs.)

Hello manu,

I think I misunderstood this bug, I was under the impression that this was not a bug because the auto-completion appeared to work fine for me.. Just you have to usually put in more than 1 letter occasionally after the auto-completion is done, then it will re-run itself to get the correct path.. Maybe when selecting is finished and it has produced a bad file-path, (through the method that you stated), that it produces error message stating that the file doesn't exist.. (I think that this is what you wanted to occur right?)

I am sorry to have hastily closed the bug report, I see your point about the bug more clearly now..

Thanks again, Alex.

Manu, please post screenshots so we can better understand your problem. Thanks.
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Let me know if you need anything else.

I also get the error if I type Examples/ completely and then press k and ENTER.

works fine with epiphany-browser for me, do you have the problem with something else than firefox? Doesn't look like a GTK bug to me

With Synaptic and Thunderbird. (running under KDE, this is Kubuntu).

Also GIMP.

Marking unconfirmed then, that works fine for me, maybe somebody else will get the problem and can look if that's known upstream

maybe you could describe some step with GIMP on edgy (GTK changed since dapper so it would be better to have an example on edgy or feisty)

In Edgy things get weirder:

*) I cannot reproduce the bug in GIMP on edgy, everything works as expected.

*) In synaptic I cannot reproduce the bug either but I cannot select any file at all, when I hit ENTER nothing happens :(

*) I can easily reproduce the bug on Firefox and Thunderbird.

if that happens only with firefox and thunderbird I would say that's a bug from those applications then

It seems fixed in feisty.

manu, is that fixed for you?

Still present in Feisty, at least in Firefox and Thunderbird. These are the only gtk applications I have installed.

looks like a firefox bug, I don't get it on feisty though, ctrl-L change the focus to the location entry which doesn't do completion

in fact the completion works correctly

It does completion but it is broken. Am I making this up because I am bored? You have screenshots above of each step and they still work for me. Yet another example:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir Examples
$ touch Examples/foofoobar
$ touch Examples/foofoobar
$ firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/78510
Click Browse... near "Include attachment"
Ctrl+L shows the location entry, if it is already shown then you are already doing something different
Write Examp until the cursors jumps after /, this is mainly random, sometimes it jumps after Exa, sometimes after Examp, sometimes it shows the completion but never jumps. If it doesn't jump, press Ctrl+L and start writing Exa again.
Write f. It autocompletes to Examples/foofoo and places the cursor after the last o
Write b. It autocompletes to Examples/foofoobar
Hit Enter.
The Attachment field shows: /home/manu/Examples/foofoob
Hit the monitor with the head.

The second touch is supposed to be:

$ touch Examples/foofoofoo

OK. Now I know I am not crazy. Here is another guy suffering from this:
http://we.hates-software.com/index_15.html (search for gtk).

manu,

 What happens if you try with a new profile, does it still happen the same way? I am unable to reproduce this on Feisty. To set up a new profile to test please see:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs
or try running it in safe mode example: firefox -safe-mode and see if it still happens for you. Please let me know if this happens with new profile or safe-mode.

we need a tester to push this further.

This happens for me, as well. It's very annoying. If I could just disable the auto completion I'd be perfectly happy.

I always end up doing something like this...

(dialog opens)
I type: /usr/bin/ktorrent
I end up with something like /usr/bin/in/ktorrent.

Personally I'd rather just type my filename than have to wait and look for an autocompletion option.

John,

I can reproduce this here in this very same webpage in Firefox 3 in Hardy whenever I wish with several files. It also happens in gmail.

I forgot to mention that I can also reproduce this in safe mode.

anyone can make a screenshot that shows where you type the location and what gets cut?

... and please test whether this still happens on ffox 3.

Screenshots are already there. Now the location entry is within the file dialog instead of a pop up but everything else is pretty much the same.

A step by step procedure is also above. If you have the location bar but don't have autocompletion, press Ctrl + l (L downcase) two times and it should work. If you cannot reproduce it, then we must have different things installed. I am in Kubuntu Hardy and have very few gnome programs (gimp, inkscape, synaptic, probably that is all). It happens with synaptic and inkscape and it doesn't happen with gimp.

And I said above: "I can reproduce this here in this very same webpage in Firefox 3 in Hardy whenever I wish with several files. It also happens in gmail. I forgot to mention that I can also reproduce this in safe mode."

This is not really big deal. This fails so reliably that I know already that the autocompletion will cut the filename. The workaround is to delete the last letter and type it again.

And this is not incomplete. It may be unconfirmed if no one else can reproduce it. But I have given all information that has been requested.

I am guessing one problem with this bug is that it really needs upstream attention, and there's not enough information to tell whether the problem lies with Firefox or GTK itself. The problem may well even lie with KDE.

Manu, you say the problem happens in Synaptic and Inkscape, as well? That would lead me to believe that there is a problem with GTK. Perhaps there is an parameter in the API that disables autocompletion, and GIMP uses it, so it is not affected (or vice versa).

is this the gtk file dialog where this happens? if so its gtk. otherwise firefox.

Yes, the GTK file dialog. Not the XUL file dialog.

Perhaps it is this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333320 .

Adam,

That seems to be the bug!

I have tried the work-around mentioned there (to remove klipper from the panel), and I cannot reproduce this anymore. If it is not the same bug, then it is strongly related. Of course, removing klipper is not an option.

As long as the gtk dialog is the only file dialog in firefox. This is also a bug in firefox.

On 04/03/2009 05:05 AM, manu wrote:
> As long as the gtk dialog is the only file dialog in firefox. This is
> also a bug in firefox.
>
> ** Also affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
Thanks you for the update. Marking incomplete for now until we figure
out what causes this

  status incomplete

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On 04/03/2009 05:05 AM, manu wrote:
> As long as the gtk dialog is the only file dialog in firefox. This is
> also a bug in firefox.
>
> ** Also affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
this is being fixed in GTK not so much a firefox bug but we will wait
for Gnome to fix this and see hat happens

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