On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 23:11 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:14 -0700, Michael Knepher wrote: > > Just how is it keeping you from selecting your home directory? Just a > > guess, you may be getting bit by the bug, er, I mean "feature", in the > > latest gtk+ file selector that insists on selecting the first > > subfolder in a folder. Could this be solved by having the GTK+ file selector not select a file, but still focus in the right area of the dialog (ie place the keyboard focus in the file selection area, but not select a file)? Has anyone filed a bug against this? > The new gtk+ file selector has to be the worst abomination in user > interface design that I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. > > I just love the way that when I ask firefox to open something > in /usr/bin/emacs, it takes five minutes to do so -- even _after_ I've > actually typed <Ctrl-L> "/usr/bin/emacs" <Enter>. Sometimes I have to > select 'emacs' again after it's finished scanning the whole of the > contents of /usr/bin. Again, has anyone filed a bug against this. Surely this could be fixed by having the file selector quickly check whether 'emacs' is a file or a folder and if it's a file then open it without first doing a folder search. If no-one has filed bugs against these two problems then I'm happy to do so. Rodd -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side"