Re: (OT) Re: GNOME is f*cked seven ways from Sunday
* William Ballard <nospam_50115@alltel.net> [2005 Feb 12 22:02 -0600]:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:37:56PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Jesus, well *that* was fscking intuitive as hell.
>
> It also does things if you just start typing.
> Typing a few characters brings up a little text field to select a file
> in the current directory. Typing "/" brings up the location box.
Another interesting tidbit. If I hang around here long enough I'll get
a user manual for the GTK+ filechooser without having to read the
source. ;-)
So, how exactly, according to the GNOMEites, are we supposed to divine
all of these nifty keyboard features? Is it up to each app to document
it in TFM? (yeah, right) Or, do we users now just need to take it
upon ourselves to type whatever into whatever GTK+ window appears in
the hope of discovering some magic? Since we GUI users have been
conditioned to only type into presented text boxes or be able to use
hot-keys incorporated into menus, this new interface isn't intuitive,
but it is imaginative.
- Nate >>
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