Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:14:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Marc wrote: > One thing is that people, and _many_ people, just want their location > entry back, for lots of reasons: discoverability, pastability and so > on. But for some reason this simply does not happen. Do you want this only in gimp or in all programs that use the gtk+ widgets and dialogs? Obviously this is a GTK2 issue. Currently not everyone is happy with the new dialog but hopefully it can be improved so most of us are happy in the future. If not, then what do you suggest? Either way you choose someone will be unhappy. Adding a simple file (text) entry box with tab completion (and a preference to turn on autocompletion) would, IMHO, solve virtually all of the problems. People who don't like using text entry boxes wouldn't have to use it. The ctrl-L popup has lots of problems; not only is it not apparent how to get to it (there's nothing that points at ctrl-L), but it's very clumsy to use (you have to type ctrl-L, type in the filename -- while having to deal with its quirks -- and then click OK twice). And no, bookmarks are NOT a complete solution to this. I have probably 200 bookmarks in Firefox (for example), and finding the right bookmark in the list takes a while (I have to scan through the list and find the one I want). As far as images go, I currently have about 70 directories with images (65 subdirectories for my digital camera, and some miscellaneous ones). The camera ones have 100-200 each (in a lot of cases I have two copies of each image, one the JPEG file extracted from the raw image and another one converted using my hacked-up dcraw), and a couple of the others have 1000 each. Navigating through all of this is a real pain; the ones I'm most interested in I simply memorize. -- Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
