Robert Elz wrote: [...]
But when clicking on that button, it creates a box containing the words "Type name of new folder" - and actually seems to expect me to type a new name. That's not "intelligently create".
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Enough rant ... but if anyone has actually worked out how to make this work, I'd love to know.
I haven't tried that, but maybe simply defining DEFAULT_NEW_FOLDER_NAME as blank string will help?
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/gtkfilechooserdefault.c#n148 But it could still delete the clipboard, i don't know. r.