Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evince
When using the Save A Copy function in Evince (or Save As in other
apps), I see that the "Recently Used" selection in the "Places" column
on the left only lists filenames that have been used before in saving.
It should prioritize showing the recently used *directories* instead of
or in addition to the filenames.
I use a workflow similar to what is described in bug 151079. That is, I
might be downloading several documents, reviewing each, and if they are
useful, I will "Save a Copy" to a local directory. I think bug 151079
is right that the save-as dialog should retain the last-used directory
as the initial location so I can simply press "Save" to put the copy in
the right location.
However, I actually have a handful (2-3, often) directories that I would
like to store these files that I downloaded and viewed. I see the
"Recently Used" as acknowledgement that most-recently-used (MRU) lists
are a useful tool for providing links to documents and locations. Never
in using Evince, though, have I actually saved over another copy of an
existing pdf. This might be useful for some, but much more useful to
many (I imagine, and certainly for me) would be the case where I save to
the same directories over and over again.
** The Recently Used list, therefore, should present some kind of list of MRU
directories. And, corresponding to the bug 151079, the top of the list should
be the initial location of that Save a Copy dialog. **
I believe this problem is not specific to Evince, but is a problem with Gnome's
Save As dialogs in general.
I see that the Recently Used list seems to be shared around Gnome and
that it is filtered in the dialog box by file type. Given that this
filter does not filter out directories in the other views (e.g. home
dir), it would not be inconsistent behavior.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Gnome Save As dialog's "Recently Used" does not include directories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353951
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