[Linux-disciples] Filing a GNOME bug

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

I don't know the general answer to your question, but I think the
specific answer is in the gnome-applets package.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> There's a very stupid bit of UI badness in GNOME 2 or GTK+
> -- I don't know which component, and that's my question --
> on which I'd like to file a bug. Namely, try taking a
> screenshot by pressing the PrintScreen key. Up comes a
> file-save dialog. You have two fields: "Name", and "Save in
> Folder." What happens if you try to type the folder and name
> in the Name field (e.g., "~/Screenshot.png")? The file-save
> dialog disappears, and the file doesn't get saved -- doesn't
> get saved anywhere, as far as I can tell.
> 
> I think this is a problem in the PrintScreen implementation,
> not the save dialog itself: if I use the Save As feature in
> Evolution, say, which I'm fairly certain is using the
> GNOME2/GTK+ API, it saves fine. Ditto Firefox, though I'm
> not as sure which widgets it's using.
> 
> So
> 
> 1) Which package do I file the bug against?
> and
> 2) More generally, when I see a GNOME component failing, how
> do I figure out which subcomponent is to blame?
> 

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