The change was made to GTK 3, as Firefox is still a GTK 2 app this issue will remain until the port to GTK3 is finished. I will add the firefox port bug to this bug report.
Also the fix does not expand the file type extensions when the drop down list is selected I have reported this upstream here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671235 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #671235 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671235 ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Fix Committed => Triaged ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #627699 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699 ** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 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/219385 Title: File filters can make file selection dialog too wide for screen Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Unknown Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit: Fix Released Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Triaged Status in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “gtk+2.0” package in CentOS: New Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-desktop-environment This bug occurs in Firefox but is likely related to the generic Gnome file-selection-dialog rather than application specific. In this case our website is calling OS file dialog via Firefox and JS/Flash, passing in a filter with a description (eg. "Photos and Videos"), and file extension-matching pattern (eg. "*.mov;*.mpg;*.avi;*.jpg") Windows dialogs tend to truncate this list, and expand only the drop- down when selected, open and active. Ubuntu/Gnome appears to make the dialog width match the width of the filter drop-down, which is quite long due to the number of file types and mixed-case scenarios (eg. *.jpg;*.JPG) Due to the amount of file formats we're filtering based on, the dialog box can easily grow wider than the user's display permits. See screenshot for illustration: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/2403694395_ca70740726.jpg Expected behavior would be to truncate the file filter list display past a certain point to prevent dialog box from growing too large. Our testing confirms this behavior in both Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04RC. This bug prevents Ubuntu users from being able to use the advanced upload tool on Flickr.com from Firefox. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/219385/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
