I can confirm this in Raring. I agree that it seems to be a bug with GtkFileChooser (or one of it's subclasses) as I've had weird problems with it in other situations.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to transmission in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915165 Title: Cannot specify save directory for some GTK+3 applications - Recent/recursive directories replace user selection. Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: New Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “transmission” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This bug is very evident in the default 12.04 versions of Transmission and gnome-screenshot, though I suspect many other applications are affected. When the user clicks on dropdown list GTK widget to specify save location, often times the resultant selection is not what the user specified; rather, a folder that lies inside the selected folder is often selected or a recently used download folder is selected. Workaround (sometimes doesn't work): Select "Other" and manually browse to the folder desired, then hit the select button. Please see the following video for a demo: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/915165/+attachment/3258165/+files/bug.webm The video shows the 'Desktop' location being unusable - For Transmission, it is often the 'Downloads' folder that is unusable (I still have every new transmission file download to "Elegia_Eternum_Full_Version_v_1.1", no matter what I try). And even if I do successfully sometimes get it to download to "Downloads", the folder "Elegia_Eternum_Full_Version_v_1.1" will still be created. This bug was supposedly addressed during the 12.04 beta cycle at bug 914356 but was possibly wrongly marked as fixed. Original Description: can not save download to necessary directory. Unable to save the path, who had previously worked. Manually change the path to save the ~/.config/transmission/settings.json does not help "download-dir": "/home/paul/\u0422\u043e\u0440\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044b/Rammstein - Made in Germany (2011)" should be: "download-dir": "/home/paul/Торренты" Cyrillic in the config does not understand. If the jump file downloads to choose the way nearly impossible. Keeps to himself wants, not where indicated. This behavior only in transmission. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: transmission-gtk 2.42-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic 3.2.0 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jan 12 07:21:24 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: transmission UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/915165/+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
