Re: [Usability] The new file chooser

[Mattias Karlsson <matka134 student liu se>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 18:16, Havoc Pennington 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.
> > 
> 
> When you paste, the chooser would jump to what was pasted, and ctrl+L
> would open containing what was pasted.

Why not make pasting in the file chooser behave as if the user first
pressed Ctrl-L and then pasted the content? This would make it possible
to paste an invalid path and then edit it. E.g. you could paste: 
"/urs/local/bin/foo" and then edit it to "/usr/bin/foo" (even if the
former file doesn't exist).

cheers,

/ Mattias