file selection dialog
David Malcolm
dmalcolm at redhat.com
Wed Jan 19 23:45:33 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:07 +0100, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to get back the old functional gnome/gtk file selection
> dialog?
>
> The current dialog used by e.g. the gimp and evolution obviously tries
> to imitate the interface of Windows XP which makes it very inefficient.
>
> Instead of just typing the file name as with previous versions I need to
> activate the file system browser and locate the target folder and this
> for every file.
Press Ctrl-L if you want to be able to type paths in the dialog.
>
> Additionally the 'feature' to enter the name of new folders in the file
> system browser interprets loosing the focus as confirmation which has
> already caused me many unwanted folders. Window's file open dialog is at
> least able to delete or rename these files.
>
> Tom
>
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