On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 10:55, Jan Pfeifer wrote: > hi all, > > some friends and me were looking for an alternative file selection > widget for the gtk/gnome programs -- mainly we are looking for anything > allowing keyboard navigation in the file selection dialog window (for > navigating in big directories), and some kind of directory > bookmarks/history support. > > we didn't find anything in the net, I was wondering if anyone here would > know of something of the sort ? > > many thanks for any help :) Not really an answer, but the current file selection *is* fully key navigable in the standard fashion. (You have to Control-Tab to get out of the box if you don't use the mnemonics.) And in fact, if you know about its tab completion, it's really more usable from the keyboard than most alternatives. (I don't expect the 2.4 dialog to be as good.) Regards, Owen