On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM 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.
I'll ignore those who don't know that GNOME is the standard Debian desktop environment since, well, a long time and assume you're using a standard Debian install. I remember being annoyed by the same issue in the past, but I haven't been for some time, I wonder if the behavior changed between Debian 12 and Debian 13. I can't repeat it with the few tools I tried now: Firefox, OpenSCAD (Qt), LibreOffice Calc, GNOME Text Editor, and blender (completely custom UI). What tool do you use when you see this, and is this only when trying to save to a tile that already exists, or only for new files?
