On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:19 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Toby <tobia.conforto@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Now for one of the most annoying things ever: how in the world am I > > supposed to select hidden files on GTK2's file dialog!? > > Right-click and select "Show Hidden Files" from the menu. Yes, there > should be a way to globally enable this. IIRC there's a bug report on > this for quite a while. Someone just needs to find some time (30 > minutes should be more than enough) to add this to GtkSettings. But > obviously noone cares enough to contribute such a patch. Yet another example of why Apple was right about the one-button mouse. There is nothing intuitive about having a right-click menu to activate this. Even if a user knows that right-click generally means "properties" how is he to know that this right-click action affects anything other than the item he is right-clicking on? So while I'm glad that a bug report has been filed, this should never have been done this way in the first place. Furthermore, a global option is nice, that is way too coarse. I believe this option needs to be in each dialog box (due to the nature of linux) and should be easily accessible. > > > Another one: who came up with the retarded idea of "Browse for other > > folders"? Just show the damn thing already! Why add 1 useless > > click (on a small widget on top of that) to 90% of file dialog > > usage? > > If you started to use the bookmarks feature, it is likely that you > will not need to use the folders list for about 95% of your file > dialog usage. That is my experience at least. Sure that works. But I have to use a mouse (or a number of tab keystrokes). How is this more efficient than just doing what this person asked? > > > One minor thing: I noticed that Alt-Up goes to the parent directory. > > I'd give Backspace the same behaviour, following popular OS usage. > > Backspace is already bound to "up-folder". It is however probably been > eaten by another widget that gets the key-press first. Might make > sense to investigate if this can be changed. > > > This is only based on my user experience. I'm sure more people will > > come up with other issues about features I'm not using (~ expansion...) > > Your user model is obviously different than mine because I very much > prefer the new file-chooser over the old one. The problem is to find > something that works well for the majority of GTK+ users and I believe > that the new file-chooser dialog does a pretty good job at this. But > of course it would need some research to find out. We won't be able to keep everyone completely happy, but I think we can bring back the features that made the GTK1 dialog box so efficient without hurting the newbies. > > > Sven > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
