Hi, On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Christopher Curtis <ccurtis0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> well I have the "mysterious box collecting [my] keystroke" (also using >> GIMP 2.8.4 as shipped by Mint, hence Ubuntu). It just looks to me like >> a feature for being able to select a file without having the text >> field active. And it does not block Enter for saving (which was the >> original bug reported in the email as I understand it). >> So I don't see any bug there. > > > Well, I haven't been following the thread closely but I don't know what you > expect it to mean that something would "block Enter". > Well... that's part of the message I am answering to, and consequently, the one you answer to as well. It says it blocks enter, and I say it does not at least on my machine. > When in this mode, if you type and hit enter, the box goes away and nothing > appears to happen. It isn't clear that the box is even there because it's > not in the visual field. It appears that nothing happens, including enter. > After hitting enter and trying to type again, the box reappears. Unless you > pay close attention what is happening this is both very non-obvious and > frustrating. > > I don't understand the bug's comment because I've never tried to use Alt-S > or Alt-E in that dialog. I suspect the bug report is simply poorly phrased > out of frustration, which I can completely relate to. Yes for these other shortcuts, I am not even sure that these are supposed to work from the start. Maybe these are common shortcut in save dialogs in Windows program? I can't say. > How is this popup search even useful when there's already search built in to > the file name input? I would agree the popup should be removed/disabled. > Arrow up/down work in it but Page up/down doesn't. Arrow up/down, > left/right, and Page up/down all work (mostly) reasonably when used from the > file name input. Worst of all, if you select a file from the multiple choice > file name input and then arrow up/down, you're in the file chooser portion > and typing uses the popup search instead of the file name search you just > came from. > > Personally, I hit this frequently and think this behavior is an > extraordinarily frustrating usability disaster. Yes probably the file selection dialog can be improved. Do you know if this also happens in GTK+3 programs? If so, a feature request with relevant counter propositions of how to improve this for GTK+3 may be worth it (if not already existing, that's possible and should be searched first). Because this is not a GIMP thing and there is not so much we can do about it (of course we could make a custom widget, but well, the whole point of separating GTK+ from GIMP was to share common widgets). Jehan > Chris _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
