GTK+ fileselector issues (was Re: Firefox - why is it better?)

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed May 25 02:31:17 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:18:12AM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> Actually, while having a look through gnome bugzilla and preparing to
> file a bug against this (it seems to be a unique example worth some
> thought) I noticed that what is happening here is actually correct.
> 
> By this I mean that pressing:
> 
> 	<Ctrl-L> "/usr/bin/emacs" <Enter>
> 
> should open the "Open Location" dialog, locate the file '/usr/bin/emacs'
> and then close the dialog.

This isn't "correct" in any sane sense of the word. Having to hit a secret
key combo to enter a path name is ridiculous, and having that be a second
dialog is a serious regression.


[...]
> I'm assuming that the problem is that pressing
> 
> 	<Ctrl-L> "/usr/bin/emacs" <Enter> <Enter>
> 
> isn't as responsive as it might be.

The problem is that one reason one might want to type rather than browse is
that it's actually much, much faster -- but now, there's extraneous
keystrokes required for no good reason.


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