Hi. while trying to open a file I tested if it is possible to drop a folder into a file chooser dialog. It is not possible, except if you drop it into the favourites list.
I would suggest changing the default beaviour to: 1. dragging a directory into file chooser makes the dropped location as the working directory. This could also be possible of one dropes a folder on an application icon. This could lead to a file chooser in the directory. Why do you want that? Because with some applications you can filter: if you ahve a folder of different file formats but only a few are xml - than it is nice to be able to drop a folder on an application or file chooser. Otherwise you have to browse to the location. That can be very complicated depending on how deep your infrastructure is. 2. dropping a file on a chooser should select that file (in the container folder). 3. Another idea: Why don't we have things like location history? Some application open the chooser in the last location - but why not like in epiphany and urls someting like: I type "/usr/loc" ... and the chooser completes to "/usr/local/lib/moin/wiki/data/" because this location was used once. This could either be used inside an application or all over all applications used in a session (or even older). As we rather use more than 2-3 folders at a time (i also like "cd -" in Bash) for copying from one source to a target this could be very useful. -- http://www.alternativ.net/~vinci Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
