Re: gtk file open dialog usability.

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:45 +0300, alex halogen-dg com wrote:
> Anyone except me also disappointed by it?

Yes, it sucks.  Whoever wrote it should be shot.

> Any way how we can have old file open dialog back?

You are free to use GtkFileSelection in your applications; it still
works.

> I really find it very frustating and explained
> why, with some images here:
> http://www.halogen-dg.com/alex/file_selection_dialog/GtkFileOpenBadUsability

You are hitting these bugs:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330565
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333320

And you don't have a new GTK+ anyway:

http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2006-03.html#29

  Federico