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Re: File open dialog: Where is my tab extension



On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:41 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Ross Burton wrote:
> 
> > * The new GtkFileChooser widget emphasizes simplicity and thus does
> >   not provide a navigation entry by default when opening files.
> >   Experienced command line users will likely want to make heavy use of
> >   the location dialog brought up by the Control-L key shortcut.
> 
> And?  Was that supposed to help increase usability?  Requiring me to do CTRL-L
> every time the damn file chooser opens (after waiting for it to sort the content
> of the folder and to try finding the right icon theme) is making GNOME _less_
> efficient than it was using the previous release of GTK2+.
> 

Lack of text entry box in filechooser open dialog impairs accessibility:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541

I will open a bug on the erratic behaviour of pressing tab in the
location entry as soon as I figure out what happens.

/Jens



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