Re: [Usability] The new file chooser

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 02:28 +0200, rkaa netcom no wrote:
> Sitat Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
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> > > 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.
> 
> > Exactly, so what is the point of your argument?
> > If you have to type something in anyhow then there's no big deal having
> > to use Ctrl+L to initiate it and its actually faster than focusing a
> > text widget in the dialog with the mouse and then hitting Ctrl+C.
> 
> For various reasons I have a problem using the keyboard from time to time.
> I mainly use the pointing device. It slows me down considerably to be forced to
> use the keyboard in order to later be able to use the mouse to paste or copy.

Keyboard is NEARLY always faster than mouse - just ask CLI users!

> >
> > Well you can always mosey on down to using KDE where you can have a
> > zillion and one buttons and widgets all over the place if thats what you
> > want. GNOME can be summed up as "Less = More" and it just happens to
> > work too :).
> 
> My alternative isn't another Linux UI. I already use KDE. As I said, Mozilla and
> Gimp are my most used apps and they both have introduced the new filepicker.
> Since it is so severly unusable to me, the alternative is actually MS-Windows,
> which has a very good widget for file-handling in spite of its other
> annoyances.
> 
> I really never thought it would come to this, but after 5 years, I'm back on
> Windows. That's sad. To myself in particular, but also because I know that new
> Gtk filepicker UI will keep away other potential users. It's confusing, poorly
> documented, and takes more time to use than the old one. The "bookmark" idea is
> great but the lack of a text-widget is a disaster - sorry.


I find the following works very efficiently for pasting in a filename:

Ctrl+O (opens file dialog)
Ctlr+L 
Backspace (hold to clear existing text)
Ctrl+V 


Unless you have something against using the keyboard you will find the
above both fast and efficient compared to using mouse in MS windows open
dialog (where you have to focus the text widget , select the text and
press delete and then paste it - believe me thats a lot slower to do it
that way)

jamie.

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