Cannot specify save directory for some GTK+3 applications - Recent/recursive directories replace user selection.

how to specify and save the download-dir (Save to Location)?

transmission-gtk and transmission-qt: FAIL
Please fix this problem.

transmission-daemon -g ~/.config/transmission + edit "download-dir": "/home/paul/\u0422\u043e\u0440\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044b/ (aka ~/Торренты): OK

After the last update everything is fine. Cyrillic in the config does not understand.

After the last update in transmission-gtk 2.50 (13228) back issues... with which the package is that?

Delete subdirectories from the directory downloads. The way to become a normal setting. Mystery ...

transmission-gtk 2.50: FAIL (not downloads...), but transmission-daemon: OK

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I'm experiencing the same issue, but after doing some more testing I found it only happens in my user account.
The test case is as follows:
1) Make sure you don't have any subdirectories in ~/Downloads
2) Set transmission to use ~/Downloads as the target directory
3) Create an empty directory under ~/Downloads
4) Open transmission's preferences dialog
In my user account, after doing this, the target directory for downlaoded files is automatically set to the deepest subdirectory under ~/Downloads.

However, if I do the same in the "Guest" account, everything works as expected, and transmission keeps the target directory correctly.

I tried to reset the configuration by:
rm -r ~/.config/transmission
but the problem is still happening.

I suspect this is not a bug from transmission. I tried to debug it, adding some output in the GTK+ callbacks and the functions that manipulate the app's settings. It looks to me like GTK+ file_chooser_button widget is firing the event positioning itself in the wrong directory, thus confusing transmission. As far as I could understand transmission code is handling the path correctly.

This has become such an irritating bug that I've decided to delete a couple of config files to reset my desktop since a newly created user account does not have this bug.
However, while deleting those config files, I stumbled upon .local/share/gtk-2.0<something>/gtkfilechooser.ini
Maybe that's where the bug's originated from, but I can no longer test it since I've also deleted .gconf, .gnome2, etc

Anyone care to try deleting the gtkfilechooser.ini to test my theory?

nope, it's not what I thought. This bug popped up today after launching transmission. I still have no idea what's causing it.

exact same issue, as described in #9 -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/915165/comments/9 -- thanx matias

I have not filed this upstream because I have a sneaking suspicion that the fault lies in Ubuntu's implementation of GTK.

For what it's worth, 12.10 appears to not suffer from this bug.

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.

Confirm this in raring too. Don't know what you guys did to GTK3, but it is as unpleasant as it can get.

Confirm this in raring too. Annoying as hell. I don't have to open picker at all. As soon as I open transmission settings pane, it sets all folders chosen to "$home", displays them as "none" and if I try download anything there it creates a folder with non-displayable unicode characters in the name.

13.04 - still here

affects screenshot saving dialog: it always sugests ~/Pictures and last selected folder doesn't even appear in the list

For those of you experiencing this behavior in Transmission, does it still occur in >= 2.80?

Still is a problem. Don't know why.

Alex

On 07/21/2013 03:19 PM, Charles Kerr wrote:
> For those of you experiencing this behavior in Transmission, does it
> still occur in >= 2.80?
>

I believe this is actually bug 1102042 which was fixed for Ubuntu 13.10 Alpha.

Not a duplicate of 1102042. If I select a folder under the dropdown (even twice) it will save to the first folder that it defaulted to, it is as if it isn't taking the new folder setting under the dropdown!