Hi, Peter Eckersley <pde@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> No, you haven't. Just type the name of the file to open (or rather >> only the first letters of it). Then press Enter once. Do _not_ press >> Ctrl-L before you do this, just use typeahead as in any other list >> view. > > This fragment of a solution is a good example of my problems with > the GTK2 chooser. It works fine, but *only* if the file path you > want to type starts with / . Typing relative paths, or paths that > start with ~, leads to random crazyness. Why is typeahead random crazyness? All GTK+ list views do this (well, at least if the application programmer cared to specify a search column). So this is exactly what the GTK+ user expects because it is consistent with the rest of the application. Opening a dialog box with a text entry is definitely not what the user would expect to happen and I am all for getting rid of this dialog. If we need a text entry (and I agree that it sometimes makes sense to have one), then it should replace the path-bar just like it is done in Nautilus. Perhaps I will try to cook up a patch for that as soon as Federico has committed the pending changes to the file-chooser. Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
