yes, but why weren't those considered from the beginning?On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:10 +0100, GÃbor Farkas wrote:
Perhaps instead of assuming that whatever problem you have would be solved by a path entry widget, why not stop and identify the problems and think up better solutions? Do you just want faster keyboard navigation? Sounds reasonable. Maybe we need some key-bindings for "up folder" in the dialog? (I can't seem to find one.) I do know that I can type in paths in Save As dialog to move around. Maybe the type- ahead find should be able to recognize "../files/" and change the file view.
There are tons of things that can be done to improve the UI for technical users without cluttering the UI with useless widgetry for non- technical users.
for example how could this become the new file dialog without a keyboard shortcut to go "up" one folder.
(btw, backspace now seems to go up one directory ONCE. yes, only once ;. gtk+2.5.6 here)
there was an old file dialog. it featured fast keyboard navigation. there's the new one. i like it more. it looks a lot better (it copies kde's and windows's file-chooser after all :>> ). but the keyboard navigation is not fast. it's nearly impossible.
btw. gnome is always proud that it has a lot of accessibility features. how could then the keyboard access been so neglected.
please understand that i understand that i can/should file bugreports and enhancement requests and such... but for me it's simply hard to understand why was this release in such a state.
btw. this discussion was repeated here million times. last time i also wrote a detailed response... (which i am now unable to find ;)
short summary of that mail:
i tried to use the gtk file selector to open/navigate to files using the keyboard, and also compared it to nautilus. nautilus won. it had backspace to go up ;) maybe what it needs is a heuristic that closes 'unneeded' windows. ofcourse the hard part is to classify a window 'unneeded'
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