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

[Charles Dale <chuckd sydney net>]

Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
> > I would really hope to see this go into GNOME 1.0.
> 
> I would really hope not to see this go into GNOME 1.0.  Repeat after me:
> 
>         Feature freeze...
>         Feature freeze...
>         Feature freeze...
> 
> NO NEW FEATURES!!!  This is how one writes stable software.  Innovate,
> stabilise, innovate, stabilise.  Put this and all other feature requests
> on the shelf until 1.1.  For now, we are in, that's right, feature freeze.

This more like a bug to me - it is totally non intuitive and will create
much confusion for the 1.0 release. I was getting very frustrated trying
to open images in nested subdirectories until I read this message
describing the tab completion.

Chuck