Re: File open dialog: Where is my tab extension
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 13:58 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> So first of all, what issue are we talking about exactly? I guess I have
> lost track.
>
> Is it that ^L is non-obvious?
>
> I agree that having a 'Help' button in the file-selector dialog which
> explains things (or at least have it pop up when somebody hits F1) would
> help here.
Help for fileselector: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147671
> Or that the respective widget is not there by default?
>
> This is deliberate design choice by upstream, based on their usability
> experts. IMHO, Debian should not revert this. Anyway, it's up to the
> Debian GNOME team to decide this.
Lack of text entry box in filechooser open dialog impairs accessibility:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541
> Or that you cannot configure it easily via the
> Desktop-Preferences?
>
> This is another design choice by upstream. And a correct one I think.
>
> Or that the tab-completion in the ^L widget is working not very
> well?
>
> This would be a bug which should be fixed. Personally, I have not seen
> this, but as I said elsewhere, I do not use this Open-Location widget a
> lot.
Tab-completion stops working in mid-word:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147700
Location entry loses focus when completing:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147699
/Jens
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