Re: [Usability] The new file chooser

[Christian Schneider <c schneider scram de>]

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.
> Be it images or - when I upload something - the filenape i typed somewhere
> earlyer.
>
>  
This is also my style of using the filepicker. Not being able to enter a 
full path in text or pasting from clipboard with Ctrl-v or Middle Mouse 
click is slowing me down extremly.

There is another usability problem with the new filepicker that should 
be addressed. You can´t quickly search for files in the list by entering 
their first letters. (Like in windows or even in the nautilus main 
windows.) While having a text widget for entering paths in the 
filepicker is perhaps a little more difficult to integrate the keyboard 
search in the filepicker is absolutely essential and easy to integrate. 
I hope this problem is addressed quickly.

To make it clear I really apreciate your work and there are only a few 
usability problems left. The general gnome usability has improved greatly.

best regards,

Christian