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annoing default on save (as) for new files "untitled document 1"
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RESOLVED: INVALID

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Description Stefan Wagner 2018-02-14 19:55:47 CET
"Untitled Document 1" is the marked preselection, if I create a new, unnamed file. It hasn't been useful in the last 5 years once. 

Instead, it is annoying as hell. Suppose I write a program class RantGenerator, and want to name the file RantGenerator.scala, RantGenerator.py, RantGenerator.cc - you name it. I mark the name RantGenerator with the mouse in the editor, open the save-file-(as-)-dialog, instead, there is this useless annoyance preselected. My marking of RantGenerator is useless. If the line was empty, I could just middle-click, END-key, .scala (.py, .cc, ...) and enter - no it isn't. 

People forget to name their files and hit enter? Well, then test on <Enter> and if then the name field is empty. you can still come up with lousy suggestions. 

Well, there are so many helpless beginners, and you can't support the productive, fast working profis? Ok, then give us a dconf- or whatever configuration, where we can set a cryptic name to <empty> or 0 or Nil or null or whatever, allowing to behave not like a 5 years old. 

I always feel so ashamed for Linux when my coworkers see this  contra ergonomic pseudo helper. 

Please excuse my anger - I had hoped, that thousands of people would complain and I hadn't too. :) 

I'm using Xubuntu 16.04, 
xfce4-about 4.12.1 (Xfce 4.12)
Comment 1 Sean Davis editbugs 2018-06-07 02:11:03 CEST
Hello Stefan!

After reading your bug report, I am sorry to say I have no idea what you are talking about. If it's related to the default filename in applications, this has nothing to do with Exo. Every application defines how it saves files within it's own code.

Which application are you experiencing this in? If's it's Mousepad, I can reassign this bug report. Otherwise, I can point you in the direction of the correct bug tracker.

Thanks for the bug report!
Comment 2 Stefan Wagner 2018-06-07 13:45:15 CEST
It was gedit, which I used a lot at former time. Since then it has degenerated into complete crap and was replaced by me with geany. 

I thought that file-open/file-save dialogs are so similar, system wide, that, apart from some configuration (.png, jpg, gif/.txt .sh .scala/...) they use some same widget/component/api. 

I don't remember whether I found a second program with the same behaviour. 

Thanks for reassigning the bug report.
Comment 3 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs 2019-04-25 01:52:43 CEST
Not a bug in exo, therefore closing this report.

Bug #14220

Reported by:
Stefan Wagner
Reported on: 2018-02-14
Last modified on: 2019-04-25

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Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
2 users

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