On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 22:55, Juha Siltala wrote: > Leif is dead right. I was confused until somebody told me about ctrl+l. > It cannot be described as very discoverable.
Typing in filenames for the present folder is handled with the typeahead built into the list widget, which is relatively discoverable since users might just try it blind: file list widgets on other platforms sometimes have a similar function with which the user may be familiar. Typing in full paths is something the user could not be expected to discover anyway, since at no other point in the desktop is the slash-separated path used in the UI. The discoverability of the Ctrl-L function is improved somewhat in GNOME 2.10, wherein this functionality is present in the context menu that one sees upon right clicking the file list. However, this entry in the context menu does not include the accelerator key, as a window menu would. Anybody know the reason for this? I think it would be the best place to make this shortcut known. John _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
