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

[Gerald Gutierrez <gutier intergate bc ca>]

>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.

Fair enough. This is in fact a very good feature, though I still believe
that it would make sense to display the directory contents if the user had
typed in a directory name and hit Enter. It just makes more sense than
telling the user that it can't open the directory. Do you think so?

I would really hope to see this go into GNOME 1.0.