restricted 'open app' behaviour with firefox/gnome

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:15:02AM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> > >Oh, hey, actually, I just discovered that you can (oh-so-obviously) hit
> > >ctrl-L and type in a path.
> > and the forward slash key "/" does the same thing (lets you type 
> > in a location, with file name completion, cool)
> Matthew and Kenny, thanks for the replies and solutions.
> Come to think of it the solutions are rather "obvious", and maybe
> they are even mentioned in the gnome help (which I never bother
> to read :)) or as a keyboard shortcut.

I was kinda being sarcastic. I don't think it's obvious at all, and it's
certainly *less* user-friendly than the old way, and less discoverable.

> I actually tried Matthew's solution (ctrl-L) but on the original popup
> window with the 2 choices and it doesn't work there. Never thought of
> trying it on the file selector window.

And, therefore, after you *do* pick something with ctrl-L, you have to hit
Okay three times, somewhat negating any time-savings from the shortcut.

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