Re: [Usability] The new file chooser

[markus hammer <hm sabotage at>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 12:16 -0400, 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.
> 
> "next" file would normally just mean pressing down arrow due to sort
> order, so a typical sequence would be ctrl+o to open, ctrl+v to paste
> filename, down arrow, Enter.
> 
> Havoc

may i ask out of curiosity why there is no text-entry widget? is there a
discussion in distant times that decided this? or is it written in
stone. 

in fact, serialized filenames are not a uncommon thing. on the office
desktop. in print production, in audio production, in allmost anything
but ... programming.  (i hope you get that hint)

the lack of a text entry widget makes a filechooser gently put a stone
in the way in that scenario. 
you should regard as well, that the Ctrl+L shortcut is not documented to
date, as well as lacking any UI widget to be triggered.

markus