Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

["Daniel Espinosa" <esodan gmail com>]

Please read the response to other message:

"Ok, I was following your point of dislike about the Save As.. Dialog,
and may be if you or any other developer modify the code in that dialog
to "Remember" the last state of "Browse for other folders" expander;
then if you like to have this expander all ways showing the browser
then, just expand it for the first time (in any application, then must
exist a gconf option to remember allways), then it will be expanded
unless you hide the browser, in that case the next time this will be
hided."

2006/2/23, Peter Eckersley <pde cs mu oz au>:

Hi...

this is just an observation as a user (it's been a long time since I did
any coding with gtk), but I've found the usability of gtk applications
has decreased markedly since they started using the gtk2 file open
dialog.

Although it now supports some limited matching and completion, it's a
far cry from the the excellent "shell emulation" approach of its gtk1
predecessor (tab completion, ~ expansion, wildcard matching,
selection or filtering depending on whether you've matched one or more
files).  I find the gtk2 approach much slower, more awkward, and
unpedictable.  Different behaviour modes spring up all over the place,
some of them implement some shell conventions and not others, etc.  I
regularly find I have to give up and use the mouse, or I find the file
and think I've selected it.  And then, I realise that I have to press
enter again.

I for one would pay $50 to anyone who can implement a configuration
option somewhere in gtk2 to globally switch back to the gtk1 version.

Is anyone else equally frustrated?

cc on replies,
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Peter Eckersley
Department of Computer Science   &                  mailto:pde cs mu oz au
IP Research Institute of Australia             http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde
The University of Melbourne
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