Re: [Usability] The new file chooser

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 10:28 +0200, Christian Schneider wrote:
> 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.

That's something that could be addressed. I'm guessing that what Ruth
was trying to get at...

> 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 

Actually, you can with a some versions of gtk+ (it is included in the
Red Hat/Fedora Core gtk+ packages, and is in gtk+ 2.5.x), see patch[1].

> 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.

Cheers

[1]: http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-July/msg00219.html
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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>