thanks!
** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Also affects: gtk via
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/2443
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863157
Title:
Petition to bring back file name copy/paste functionality in GTK file
chooser
Status in GTK+:
New
Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
For a very long time, I've never/rarely needed to hand-type file
paths/names - it is extremely slow, error-proning and requiring a lot
more work (reading/clicking/moving cursors) to do this simple task.
Instead, I use tabs in a terminal to navigate, pwd to print, and
copy/paste to another file browser or window to use the full path. In
many file browsers (like Thunar), I could also single click on the
file, and directly paste it to the address bar and it directly gives
the full file name.
But this becomes increasingly difficult to do on the GTK file chooser
rolled out sometimes ago. The file chooser window first removed the
file path address bar, but at least there was a button I can click to
show it to copy/paste. Then, even that button disappeared - after many
frustrating hours, the only way to show the address bar is "Ctrl+L",
after reading many similarly frustrated posts
https://www.google.com/search?q=unable+to+type+path+dialog+ubuntu
https://www.google.com/search?q=unable+to+type+path+dialog+site%3Aaskubuntu.com&oq=unable+to+type+path+dialog+site
https://www.google.com/search?q=can+not+type+path+in+file+selector+linux+site:askubuntu.com
From the long lists of complains that one can find online (I could
easily find more), I think this just prove that removing/hiding the
address bar is very counter intuitive and should be reverted.
I see where this came from - to mimic Mac OS, like most GNOME
style/appearance was trying to achieve, and this setting maybe cleaner
and easier to attract less experienced users, but for people use Linux
for work day-in-and-day-out, this is highly annoying and counter
productive.
Here I would like to petition to revert the change and bring back the
address bar in the file chooser dialog (which is shared among not just
GNOME, but other GTK based desktops, such as xfce), or at least bring
back the button option.
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