The default folder in gtk3 seems to be Documents, and there is a drop down list that lets you choose Desktop, Home etc.
It would seem the only thing needed to close this bug would be renaming the default output -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382829 Title: Suggested output when printing a file to PDF is technical and generic "~/output.pdf" Status in GTK Version 2: Invalid Status in GTK 3: New Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Triaged Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In Jaunty, GNOME print dialogs have a "Print to File" printer available in the Print dialog. When you select this printer, the output file's suggested name is "output.pdf" and the suggested location is the user's home directory. Even worse, Firefox suggests "~/.ps", which will create an invisible file in the user's home directory, using a file format (postscript) that the user may not understand. "output" is jargon, has the potential to collide with another file of the same name in the destination directory, and is difficult to remember as it has no relation to the name of the file being printed. Incorporating the source file's name in the output filename seems like a great improvement. Saving to the user's home directory is reasonable, but the Desktop is a more accessible location. We may also want to consider saving the PDF to the same directory as the source file. Suggestion: * Always default to PDF format. * Reuse the source filename if known, else use "Untitled" or the naming convention for unnamed files. * Default to saving on the Desktop rather than inside the user's home folder. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk2/+bug/382829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp