Bug#256539: marked as done (gnome-core: New gnome file dialog
missing keyboard entry and tab completion)
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From: Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom@pdx.edu>
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Subject: gnome-core: New gnome file dialog missing keyboard entry and tab completion
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Package: gnome-core
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Severity: wishlist
The new open file common dialog is nice; I like it fine, and it works
great, but I really miss the keyboard entry and tab completion feature
of the old dialog. I would like to see it back in the interface. I
find it very annoying to have to use the mouse to browse for a file.
It's much faster to type the path with completion.
I'd also like to see the completion feature enhanced to work like some
of the completion behaviour in Zsh. Perhaps the completion could be
made programmable as well, so each application and/or the user could
enhance it?
While I'm wishlisting... It would also be nice to have an application
specific file find history that is user-controllable and configurable.
There should be global and per application settings, like that common
dialog enhancer thing you used to be able to get for Windows.
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To: Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@infotech.monash.edu.au>
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Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@infotech.monash.edu.au> - Tue, Aug 03, 2004:
> I don't see a button for this, nor any text suggesting pressing ctrl-L,
> nor even a help button.
> A sufficient fix for the bug would be to add a button or some text
> suggesting pressing Ctrl-L.
This is pretty much standard in all GNOME apps, and is documented in
the GNOME HIG for example:
<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input-keyboard.html>
I think we can not clutter every dialog with unuseful keybinding
reminders like "arrows to move up and down" or the like.
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