On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:26:06 +0000 blender505 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > It goes without saying that Debian is amazing software, and I am > grateful to all of the developers for their valuable time and > dedication to the project. > > I have been using Debian for about 6 years, and it is my primary > operating system. > > In an effort to "help" with the project, I would like to offer a > quick suggestion (since I am sure that others have brought this up > before, my message will simply add another voice): When saving a > file, the file's name is automatically highlighted in blue, but it is > not selected. This is confusing because a "selected" filename is also > highlighted in blue, and I often---without thinking---proceed to edit > the file's name just to find out that I am actually changing the save > location. Two potential remedies would be: (1) do not automatically > highlight the file's name in blue (so that our brains do not trick us > into thinking the name is selected), or (2) automatically select the > file's name from the beginning so that our expectation---which is > formed from the blue highlight---is met. > It is the file manager that determines that kind of behaviour, and it may well be customisable. The common file managers are Thunar and Nautilus, the latter usually identifying itself as 'Files'. The name of your file manager and Mr Google may help you find a fix for this, or at least whether other people have trouble with it. -- Joe
