Re: File dialog in wxt does not work

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:58:45 -0700
> Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 19 September, 2014 13:31:50 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
>>>
>>> One other thing - the "file" dialog (top left)
>>> in the wxt terminal does "nothing" for me (either
>>> in iceWM or in Mate). When I click it, nothing
>>> happens.
>>
>> It copies the window content into the desktop clipboard.
>> In KDE you can see it as a small thumbnail in the klipper menu.
>> Whether IceWM or Mate provide a similar tool to retrieve it, I can't
>> say.
>>
>> If you run some other program (Gimp?  Powerpoint? soffice?) that
>> supports cut-and-paste using the clipboard, you can then import the
>> image using ctrl-V or middle-click or whatever you have configured
>> for "paste from clipboard".
>
> Works! Thanks for the hint.
>
> I expected a "file dialog" to pop up, so that
> I could save the graph as a (say) PDF. (As it
> works under Qt.)
>
> The functionality is nice, but the user-interface
> might be rather confusing for people. (I doubt I
> am the only one who expected a file dialog.)

The icon at the top left is supposed to represent "copy" and a 
clipboard, and its tooltip says "Copy the plot to clipboard". I'm
not sure why one would expect a "file dialog".

Allin Cottrell