Bugzilla – Bug 798
Minor inconsistency in the Export dialogs: "type" versus "format"
Last modified: 2018-08-20 11:45:39 UTC
In the dialogs for Exports: 1) Export Audio, Export Selected Audio and Export Labels all have: "Save as type:" in their dialogs, 2) in contrast Export Multiple has: "Export format:'. Unless and until we abandon Export in favor of Save then all the dialogs should, for both consistency and accuracy, really say: "Export format:"
As I think you may recall, this is not a simple fix because of the inflexibility of the standard OS Open / Save dialogue we use. Because it's an OS-specific dialogue, the "Save as type" text on Windows appears as "Name" on Linux and "Save As" on Mac. We can't standardise it unless we make our own dialogue for project save and single Export. The same problem exists with "Save" as the action button in single Export and "Export" as the action button in Export Multiple. The only quick consistency fix (it's only a complete fix for Windows) would be to change Export Multiple to "Save as type" and "Save" respectively. We are technically saving the exported file (committing it to disk) - I have no issue with that solution myself.
INVALID as bug. Could be worked up into a proposal for a custom save dialog that mimics the real save dialog.
