Re: [Usability] The new file chooser

[markus hammer <hm sabotage at>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 11:56 -0400, Dave Ahlswede wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:47 +0200, rkaa netcom no wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> My first instinct would be that pasting into the filechooser would
> simply "warp" to and hilight the pasted file (or get as close to it as
> it can if it's not a valid file) ; not load it immediately. If that's
> the case, I don't see a problem

hey i got a better idea, let the user decide, by enhancing the file
selector by a text-entry widget. 

(now thats not too hard isnt it?)

seriously - are there cute little puppies being killed by the mafia as
soon the gtk2 file-selector gets an text-entry-widget?

--markus