On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Joel Roth wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:55:16AM +0000, T o n g wrote:I'm a command line guy, I used to paste the abs path of the file (from realpath) as string into the input text field and never bother with the "browse" button to click, click, click, click. . . Now I can't.I think this is a (Gnome?) toolkit issue, since I encounter the same totalitarian file-selection widget in several apps. I'd prefer text input (especially with ReadLine style tab completion) any day!
I'm not sure I get what you're talking about, but:In the GTK file selection window (eg. under Firefox's Ctrl+O hotkey), press "/", as if starting to enter an absoulte pathname. A Location textbox will appear, where you can middle-button-paste and tab-complete. This will even stay permanent: the file ~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini will be created or modified, with the following contents:
[Filechooser Settings] LocationMode=filename-entry ShowHidden=false ExpandFolders=true (The LocationMode entry is the important one.)I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, as this Location textbox can be switched on by a quite obtrusive button in the top left corner as well, with a tooltip saying "Type a file name". So this may be a feature of the GTK file chooser, while the GNOME one might lack it.
Sorry if the above is completely irrelevant in the tread. Cheers, lacos