Re: I want to be able to type in the filename...

[Gábor Farkas <gabor z10n net>]

Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:10 +0100, G�r Farkas wrote:
>
> Perhaps instead of assuming that whatever problem you have would be
> solved by a path entry widget, why not stop and identify the problems
> and think up better solutions?  Do you just want faster keyboard
> navigation?  Sounds reasonable.  Maybe we need some key-bindings for "up
> folder" in the dialog?  (I can't seem to find one.)  I do know that I
> can type in paths in Save As dialog to move around.  Maybe the type-
> ahead find should be able to recognize "../files/" and change the file
> view.
>
> There are tons of things that can be done to improve the UI for
> technical users without cluttering the UI with useless widgetry for non-
> technical users.
yes, but why weren't those considered from the beginning?
for example how could this become the new file dialog without a keyboard 
shortcut to go "up" one folder.
(btw, backspace now seems to go up one directory ONCE. yes, only once ;. 
gtk+2.5.6 here)

there was an old file dialog. it featured fast keyboard navigation. 
there's the new one. i like it more. it looks a lot better (it copies 
kde's and windows's file-chooser after all :>> ). but the keyboard 
navigation is not fast. it's nearly impossible.
btw. gnome is always proud that it has a lot of accessibility features. 
how could then the keyboard access been so neglected.
please understand that i understand that i can/should file bugreports 
and enhancement requests and such... but for me it's simply hard to 
understand why was this release in such a state.

btw. this discussion was repeated here million times.
last time i also wrote a detailed response...
(which i am now unable to find ;)

short summary of that mail:
i tried to use the gtk file selector to open/navigate to files using the 
keyboard, and also compared it to nautilus. nautilus won. it had 
backspace to go up ;) maybe what it needs is a heuristic that closes 
'unneeded' windows. ofcourse the hard part is to classify a window 
'unneeded'

gabor