[opensuse] New Firefox 3 Dialogs - Annoying; Bug filed - Go vote
Listmates, The FF3 print to file dialog on Linux does not allow you to select and edit an existing filename (.pdf or .ps) before saving a new document. If the new FF3 print to file dialog is as annoying to you as it is to me, please go vote for a fix. A bug report has been filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454329 -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 08 September 2008 07:24:38 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
The FF3 print to file dialog on Linux does not allow you to select and edit an existing filename (.pdf or .ps) before saving a new document. If the new FF3 print to file dialog is as annoying to you as it is to me, please go vote for a fix. A bug report has been filed:
Sure it does. You get a print-to-file dialog along with a choice to print to ps or pdf and the filename/folder. I'd say for once the GTK file/print dialog is mostly harmless. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
On Monday 08 September 2008 23:16, Kai Ponte wrote:
The FF3 print to file dialog on Linux does not allow you to select and edit an existing filename (.pdf or .ps) before saving a new document. If the new FF3 print to file dialog is as annoying to you as it is to me, please go vote for a fix. A bug report has been filed:
Sure it does.
You get a print-to-file dialog along with a choice to print to ps or pdf and the filename/folder.
I'd say for once the GTK file/print dialog is mostly harmless.
I suspect that without specifying the ps or pdf specifically the dialog is not displaying *all* file types so ps and pdf files don't show up in the list box. This is *still* a goofy usability thing that should be fixed. Either list *all* filetypes or make the ps pdf type choice more obvious. On the other hand, if there is a work-around the fix priority should be left at normal. GTK is stinky sometimes. Just an opinion. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kai Ponte wrote:
On Monday 08 September 2008 07:24:38 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
The FF3 print to file dialog on Linux does not allow you to select and edit an existing filename (.pdf or .ps) before saving a new document. If the new FF3 print to file dialog is as annoying to you as it is to me, please go vote for a fix. A bug report has been filed:
Sure it does.
You get a print-to-file dialog along with a choice to print to ps or pdf and the filename/folder.
I'd say for once the GTK file/print dialog is mostly harmless.
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No, No Kai, You missed my point: The FF3 print to file dialog on Linux does not allow you to select and edit an **existing filename**. A snippet from the bug should help: In FF2, we were presented with a normal save dialog that easily allowed selecting the directory, selecting a filename to place it in the filename edit field, changing a character or two and saving normally. Now in FF3, the effort is doubled. The new cryptic dialog requires first navigating the "Save in folder" directory listbox that has no ability to add a 'shortcut' for frequently used directories, then after choosing "Other" you are presented with a somewhat normal file dialog to navigate to the desired directory only to find that there is no way to **select a file**. Then after choosing "Open" to select the directory, you are returned to the print dialog to enter a new filename in a completely separate filename textbox and no ability to pre-fill that textbox with an existing filename. _That's nuts._ If I have already printed: Case-2008_cv_00318-Dailey-Vs-Caterpillar_Motion-SummaryJudgment_Exhibit-A.pdf and next need to print Exhibit-B.pdf, I should be able to click print, and in the process select the filename for Exhibit-A and then simply change A-to-B to save the new file without having to (1) remember and (2) retype the entire filename again. Instead, now after navigating the directory dialog, you get to try and remember "was that filename?: " Case-2008-cv-00316_Dailey-Vs-Caterpillar-Motion_SummaryJudgment_Exhibit-B.pdf or was it: Case-2008_cv_00318-Dailey-Vs-Caterpillar_Motion-SummaryJudgment_Exhibit-B.pdf The ability to pre-fill the file name box with something useful does not exist in FF3. That was my point;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 08 September 2008 09:24:38 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
The FF3 print to file dialog on Linux does not allow you to select and edit an existing filename (.pdf or .ps) before saving a new document. If the new FF3 print to file dialog is as annoying to you as it is to me, please go vote for a fix. A bug report has been filed:
It gives, by default, mozilla.ps as a file name and home directory as location. If you edit file name at this point, and then go to find location, it will save it under that name, although dialog for location selection has no way to change it. The other complaint that one can't add shortcut to location in mentioned dialog is not OK. There is Add (+) button. The possible annoyance is that file name is mozilla.ps each time you want to print web page to pdf. If you already have pdf file on a web page than use Save instead of Print option. The file name in a dialog will be original from the web page, and it is editable. I checked that with MozillaFirefox-3.0.1-0.1 on 64 bit 11.0 system. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 08:16:58 pm Rajko M. wrote: wrong
If you already have pdf file on a web page than use Save instead of Print option. The file name in a dialog will be original from the web page, and it is editable.
good In context menu for the link that you want to save will be "Save Link As" with a correct dialog. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Monday 08 September 2008 09:24:38 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
The FF3 print to file dialog on Linux does not allow you to select and edit an existing filename (.pdf or .ps) before saving a new document. If the new FF3 print to file dialog is as annoying to you as it is to me, please go vote for a fix. A bug report has been filed:
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The other complaint that one can't add shortcut to location in mentioned dialog is not OK. There is Add (+) button.
Thanks Rajko!, I stand corrected, you can Add to the find directory dialog and then the print dialog will create the listbox from the directory dialog bookmarks. Seems like an awful cludge when a regular old save dialog would work just fine.
The possible annoyance is that file name is mozilla.ps each time you want to print web page to pdf.
Yes, that is the primary annoyance. As indicated in the bug report, this is crippling when you need to create and save a series of pdfs with lengthy similar filenames. Again, the regular old save dialog would have worked just fine.
If you already have pdf file on a web page than use Save instead of Print option. The file name in a dialog will be original from the web page, and it is editable.
I wish. Unfortunately, the files are in html and must be printed to create the pdfs. If they were pdfs, wget would work just fine and I wouldn't need to involve a browser in the file creation process. Hopefully, this capability will be added back in the near future. Mozilla must have stolen a play from the kde4 playbook with this dialog ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 09:01:59 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
I wish. Unfortunately, the files are in html and must be printed to create the pdfs. If they were pdfs, wget would work just fine and I wouldn't need to involve a browser in the file creation process.
Hopefully, this capability will be added back in the near future. Mozilla must have stolen a play from the kde4 playbook with this dialog
As Firefox dialog is GTk (GNOME) if anything is stolen it is the other way around. It is just a GNOME way of "user friendly" with background refrain "because I said so" from opera "Father's Day" ;-) -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 06:16:58 pm Rajko M. wrote:
It gives, by default, mozilla.ps as a file name and home directory as location. If you edit file name at this point, and then go to find location, it will save it under that name, although dialog for location selection has no way to change it.
Actually it does. In the typical non-intuitive GNOME way of doing things, you can click on the up/down arrow next to Save in folder, and you'll be presented with some choices - your home folder, desktop, filesystem (which seems to do nothign) and other. You then select other then select the folder into which you want the file saved.
The other complaint that one can't add shortcut to location in mentioned dialog is not OK. There is Add (+) button.
The possible annoyance is that file name is mozilla.ps each time you want to print web page to pdf.
You have a Output Format radio button. The default is - for some reason - set to Postscript and the other radio button is set to PDF. Click that and your filename will change. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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