STEPS TO RECREATE THIS BUG 1. Open Epiphany. 2. Open Edit -> Preferences. 3. Make sure the box that says "Automatically download and open files" is checked. 4. Note that the "Download folder" is set to "File System" by default. 5. Wonder why it is set to do that, when it doesn't even have read/write permissions to access that directory. 6. Attempt to download something. Confirm that the download starts but makes no progress (stays at 0 bytes received), because it's not able to save files to that directory. 7. Set the "Download folder" to a directory that you have read/write permissions to (like your Desktop). 8. Attempt to download something again. Confirm that the download is successful. 9. Close Epiphany. 10. Open Epiphany again. 11. Attempt to download something. Confirm that the download starts but makes no progress. 12. Open Edit -> Preferences. 13. Note that the "Download folder" is set to "File System" again.
IF THAT DOES NOT REPRODUCE THE BUG 1. Install the GNOME Global Menu Applet by adding their PPA to your software sources list, following the instructions at http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/InstallingonUbuntu . 2. Try it again. SPECULATION It may be that the GNOME Global Menu Applet which I have active is keeping some functions of Epiphany's menu from working correctly, in which case this is a problem with the GNOME Global Menu Applet and should be filed as a bug with them. FURTHER THOUGHTS Even if this is a problem with the GNOME Global Menu Applet, it doesn't make any sense for the default directory for downloads to be saved to to be one that Epiphany can't save to. It's a setting that nearly every user will have to tweak; the only difference for users of the GNOME Global Menu Applet is that we have to tweak it every time we want to download something in a new instance of Epiphany. It's a bad default behavior, and it needs to be changed. -- Epiphany saves files to root file system by default, and reverts to this behavior each time it's launched https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414286 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
