Re: [Usability] The new file chooser

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Hello Ruth,

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 00:59 +0200, rkaa netcom no wrote:
> 
> Some weeks ago i took up helper work for Mozilla.org's Bugzilla after the summer
> vacation. The Mozilla suite and the Gimp are my two favourit apps on Linux, and
> I've spend the better part of 5 years on voluntary work for Mozilla.org.
> 
> I was puzzled to find that the Gtk2 version now had a "filepicker" which I
> barely could use: There was nowhere to paste or write in it! Then yesterday, I
> built the devel version of Gimp and alas - the same file choose appeared there.
> 
> Usually, I copy/paste a file url from the URL bar in Mozilla to the filepicker.

The question that should be asked is why there aren't any options to
open/edit the image from Mozilla/whatever browser.

> Be it images or - when I upload something - the filenape i typed somewhere
> earlyer.

If you're at the command-line, why not launch the opening of the image
from the command-line?

Also, why not using drag'n'drop from Mozilla to your GIMP window?

> Now I suddenly had to maneuver with innumerable clicks and drags - randomly up
> and down as I nested my way to where the file in demand is located.
> 
> Someone told me that I can use Ctrl+L to trigger YET a file chooser, where I can
> paste and type - it has an editor field.
> 
> Now.. I am - to say it midly - very disappointed by this new interface.
> It hampers my workflow severely. Not even Microsoft has made a file interface
> that clunky. The new Gtk filechoose is a giant step backwards,
> as I see it. So I find myself - for the first time since I installed Linux 5
> years ago - using Windows lately.

Please explain why it's clunky. You're just ranting here.

> I would like to know if there are plans to improve the current filechooser -
> basically by re-incorporating a text widget into it.

Nope.

> If not, I see myself forced away from using Linux.

I don't think that blackmail works with Free Software ;)

Cheers

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>