On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Joel Roth wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:55:16AM +0000, T o n g wrote:
I'm a command line guy, I used to paste the abs path of the file (from
realpath) as string into the input text field and never bother with the
"browse" button to click, click, click, click. . . Now I can't.
I think this is a (Gnome?) toolkit issue, since I encounter the same
totalitarian file-selection widget in several apps.
I'd prefer text input (especially with ReadLine style tab
completion) any day!
I'm not sure I get what you're talking about, but:
In the GTK file selection window (eg. under Firefox's Ctrl+O hotkey),
press "/", as if starting to enter an absoulte pathname. A Location
textbox will appear, where you can middle-button-paste and tab-complete.
This will even stay permanent: the file
~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini will be created or modified, with the
following contents:
[Filechooser Settings]
LocationMode=filename-entry
ShowHidden=false
ExpandFolders=true
(The LocationMode entry is the important one.)
I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, as this Location textbox can
be switched on by a quite obtrusive button in the top left corner as well,
with a tooltip saying "Type a file name". So this may be a feature of the
GTK file chooser, while the GNOME one might lack it.
Sorry if the above is completely irrelevant in the tread.
Cheers,
lacos
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