Hi... this is just an observation as a user (it's been a long time since I did any coding with gtk), but I've found the usability of gtk applications has decreased markedly since they started using the gtk2 file open dialog. Although it now supports some limited matching and completion, it's a far cry from the the excellent "shell emulation" approach of its gtk1 predecessor (tab completion, ~ expansion, wildcard matching, selection or filtering depending on whether you've matched one or more files). Even after having spent some time trying to learn it, I find the gtk2 approach much slower, more awkward, and unpedictable. Different behaviour modes spring up all over the place, some of them implement some shell conventions and not others, etc. I regularly find I have to give up and use the mouse, or I find the file and think I've selected it. And then, I realise that I have to press enter again. I for one would pay $50 to anyone who can implement a configuration option somewhere in gtk2 to globally switch back to the gtk1 version. Is anyone else equally frustrated? -- Peter Eckersley Department of Computer Science & mailto:pde@xxxxxxxxxxx IP Research Institute of Australia http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
