Re: Typing dir name in a file open dialog ...

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Yes you are doing something wrong :)

Rather than following windows conventions here where pressing enter for a
directory displays its contents, the GTK file dialog uses tab completion.

Try typing "/opt/gnome<tab>" into the dialog (where <tab> is the tab key).
It also has some other nice features.  For instance typing
"/usr/share/pixmaps/g<tab>" will only display files starting with g and
"*.png<tab>" will only display .png files in the current directory.  As
you can see, this is very powerful.  Maybe it just needs to be documented
better.

James Henstridge.

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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Gerald Gutierrez wrote:

> 
> Last time I checked I still couldn't do this. Perhaps someone can tell me why.
> 
> When I pop up an open file box in some GNOME application and I type in a
> directory name, it tells me that it errored trying to open the "file"
> instead of going to that directory and displaying its contents so that I
> can choose a file there. I hope this isn't an attempt to force people to
> navigate directories solely through the GUI.
> 
> Am I just not using it "correctly" or is this feature really missing?
> 
> 
> 
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