Re: GTK file open dialog usability...

2006-06-26 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 07:19:23PM +0100, John Cupitt wrote: > There are some useful improvements in HEAD but not in gtk stable yet: > > 1) There's now a visible text box you can type to in the Open File dialog Yay! > 2) It's now aynchronous, 2 X yay! -- tomás

Re: GTK file open dialog usability...

2006-06-25 Thread John Cupitt
There are some useful improvements in HEAD but not in gtk stable yet: 1) There's now a visible text box you can type to in the Open File dialog http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541 2) It's now aynchronous, ie. it will load the icons, file list, etc. in the background. No more waiting

Re: GTK file open dialog usability...

2006-06-24 Thread Ricardo Malafaia
I personally like it very much: it's very keyboard friendly. Some people will find it a little disturbing that there's no visible direct textbox to type in, and i would agree. Not a problem for newbies who only use the mouse to select anyway, but a little frustrating for people who wish to use t

Re: GTK file open dialog usability...

2006-06-24 Thread Olaf Leidinger
Hello! > ... > > I will explain why I dislike new approach: > > 1. For example I want to select file from /usr/bin. I type: >/u and '/usr' appears. As new user I type 'u' and then 's' >and get '/usr/src' instead of '/us'. OK, thats bad, but fixable. >I go back and remove all the line,