Re: [Usability] The new file chooser

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:47 +0200, rkaa netcom no wrote:
> Sitat Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>:
> 
> > It's pretty easily solved - just make Ctrl+V and middle click work on
> > the whole file chooser window. (Ctrl+C too, for that matter)
> >
> > No need to have an entry box there for this to work.
> >
> > That plus typeahead (done in latest) to me resolves the two reasons
> > people ask for entry box.
> 
> 
> Not good enough. I have serialized filenames. I want to open the "next" file
> sometimes. It is one letter or digit off from the filename of a file i
> previously pasted. So I want to paste the filename and edit the one
> letter/digit and then click "open". I can't do that now. Major drawback.

In this case, you'd paste the file, and it would be selected (but not
opened).  The "serialized" next file would just be the next file in the
file list.  Click that then click open.  (Or double click the file.)

> 
> 
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
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