Bug 362108

Summary:	gedit: Tab does not work in the Save As dialog
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Magnus Boman <captain.magnus>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Federico Mena Quintero <federico>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P4 - Low	CC:	vuntz
Version:	Alpha 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341480
Whiteboard:	gnome-usability, gnomeup-gtk+
Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	338003

Description Magnus Boman 2008-02-15 11:00:02 UTC

In the "Save as" dialog, if the cursor is in the 'Name' field, tab will not move from that field.

Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2008-02-18 15:07:18 UTC

Happens in epiphany too, and all "save" dialogs, I guess.

Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-03-04 17:55:36 UTC

Tab is used for filename completion when you are in the Name field.  I'm currently rewriting the completion engine; among other things, it will provide better feedback when you hit Tab.

Comment 3 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-04-07 16:59:50 UTC

That patch is already in 11.0; marking as fixed.

Comment 4 Magnus Boman 2008-04-20 09:38:40 UTC

Federico,

1. Open gedit
2. Type something
3. Ctrl+Shift+S  to save
4. Press TAB

It does not move from from the name field.

Do the same and enter a unique filename and it still wont move off of the name field.

Is this intended? If so, how can I drive gedit without a mouse

Comment 5 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-04-21 15:30:21 UTC

(In reply to comment #4 from Magnus Boman)
> 1. Open gedit
> 2. Type something
> 3. Ctrl+Shift+S  to save
> 4. Press TAB
> 
> It does not move from from the name field.

Tab won't move you away from the Name field, as Tab is used for completion only.

You can use Ctrl-Tab to move away from the Name field (this is standard practice for text controls which "eat" Tab presses).

> Do the same and enter a unique filename and it still wont move off of the name
> field.

If you enter a unique filename and hit Tab, you'll get a "No match" feedback window.  We could make it so that pressing Tab further times would make it say, "No match (hit Ctrl-Tab to move away from the Name field)".  What do you think?

Comment 6 Magnus Boman 2008-04-22 14:24:52 UTC

>If you enter a unique filename and hit Tab, you'll get a "No match" feedback
>window.  We could make it so that pressing Tab further times would make it say,
>"No match (hit Ctrl-Tab to move away from the Name field)".  What do you think?

How about;

If you enter a unique filename and hit Tab, you'll get a "No match" feedback
window.  We could make it so that pressing Tab further times would make it move away from the Name field

Comment 7 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-04-22 21:05:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #6 from Magnus Boman)

> If you enter a unique filename and hit Tab, you'll get a "No match" feedback
> window.  We could make it so that pressing Tab further times would make it move
> away from the Name field

This would break the expected behavior for Tab completion, for people who just madly hit Tab between every few letters :)

Comment 8 Magnus Boman 2008-04-23 01:37:14 UTC

That is how it seems to work in Nautilus location bar. It'd be nice if it worked like that.

Comment 9 Vincent Untz 2010-11-27 09:55:55 UTC

Okay, this is really https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341480 which was NOTABUG upstream. There's no way we can change such behavior downstream-only, so we'll follow upstream here.