On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 17:17 +0200, Leif wrote: > It seams like many softwares have removed the entry where you could > input a file name (including path) via the keyboard from their save and > load dialogs. Gimp and Glade are just two examples. > > For those happy mouse users out there that might lead to less confusion. > However for keyboard users (like me) that is a big disappointment, that > you MUST use the mouse to browse to file far a way. Now, in glade for > example, you cant even press a key to jump to the first file that begins > with that letter. > > I can't understand how it is possible to remove the file name entry, if > you care about usability. But I might have missed something.
This has been discussed *excessively* so feel free to read the archive.
The keyboard navigation for the file chooser is documented in the
READMEE: with GTK+ 2.4 press control-l to get a completing entry box you
can type into, with GTK+ 2.6 you can just type to select files.
Ross
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