Re: GTK+-2.4.0 released

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 15:06, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> Owen Taylor wrote:
> > New file selector widget
> >  
> >  The new GtkFileChooser widgets provide a radically simplified
> >  and improved way for users to select files. Capabilities such as
> >  customizable filters and previews are now available for
> >  application writers. The filesystem access is encapsulated as a
> >  dynamically loaded module; as an example of what this allows,
> >  libgnomeui now provides a gnome-vfs backend for GtkFileChooser
> >  so that it has the same view of remote filesystems as
> >  applications such Nautilus.
>
> Hmm.  Where is the entry field to type filenames in?  Or is it supposed
> to work only with mouse?  I always thought GTK+ aimed at usability, but
> what I see after creating GtkFileChooserDialog is completely unoperatable
> from keyboard!  Is there some hidden magic to make it useful or should I
> just stick with GtkFileSelection?

Ctrl-l will being up the text entry.  I have also heard that you can
start typing and it will jump to the file name with the suffix you typed
though I have yet to try this (similar to mozilla's link search).  So by
all means the new chooser is very operable from the keyboard.

--
J5

> Paul
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