Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-developer-list Digest, Vol 24, Issue 20

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Christopher Curtis <ccurtis0 gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>
> wrote:
> > well I have the "mysterious box collecting [my] keystroke" (also using
> > GIMP 2.8.4 as shipped by Mint, hence Ubuntu). It just looks to me like
> > a feature for being able to select a file without having the text
> > field active. And it does not block Enter for saving (which was the
> > original bug reported in the email as I understand it).
> > So I don't see any bug there.
>
>
> Well, I haven't been following the thread closely but I don't know what you
> expect it to mean that something would "block Enter".

Well... that's part of the message I am answering to, and
consequently, the one you answer to as well.
It says it blocks enter, and I say it does not at least on my machine.

> When in this mode, if you type and hit enter, the box goes away and nothing
> appears to happen. It isn't clear that the box is even there because it's
> not in the visual field. It appears that nothing happens, including enter.
> After hitting enter and trying to type again, the box reappears. Unless you
> pay close attention what is happening this is both very non-obvious and
> frustrating.
>
> I don't understand the bug's comment because I've never tried to use Alt-S
> or Alt-E in that dialog. I suspect the bug report is simply poorly phrased
> out of frustration, which I can completely relate to.

Yes for these other shortcuts, I am not even sure that these are
supposed to work from the start. Maybe these are common shortcut in
save dialogs in Windows program? I can't say.

> How is this popup search even useful when there's already search built in to
> the file name input? I would agree the popup should be removed/disabled.
> Arrow up/down work in it but Page up/down doesn't. Arrow up/down,
> left/right, and Page up/down all work (mostly) reasonably when used from the
> file name input. Worst of all, if you select a file from the multiple choice
> file name input and then arrow up/down, you're in the file chooser portion
> and typing uses the popup search instead of the file name search you just
> came from.
>
> Personally, I hit this frequently and think this behavior is an
> extraordinarily frustrating usability disaster.

Yes probably the file selection dialog can be improved. Do you know if
this also happens in GTK+3 programs? If so, a feature request with
relevant counter propositions of how to improve this for GTK+3 may be
worth it (if not already existing, that's possible and should be
searched first).

Because this is not a GIMP thing and there is not so much we can do
about it (of course we could make a custom widget, but well, the whole
point of separating GTK+ from GIMP was to share common widgets).

Jehan

> Chris