Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@...> writes: Ian> I am in the Preferences/Files dialog tab and I cannot figure out Ian> how to disable just one file type. The dialog has a checkbox next Ian> to each type and at the bottom "Add" and "Remove" buttons. Does Ian> the Remove button apply to all checked rows or to rows picked with Ian> the normal selection mechanism?
Michael> The "Remove" button applies to the currently _highlighted_ row. Michael> The "Add" button appends a new row at the bottom. Michael> You can have multiple rows per file type, so the checkbox Michael> enables/disables a line. This is what I needed to know, thanks. It is very confusing, though. There simply is no way a newbie would know what the checkboxes are for. Ian> If it is the checkboxes, do I really have to uncheck each one by Ian> one before I can disable this one type? Michael> I don't understand that question. If there's just "one type", I Michael> fail to see why you would want to "uncheck each one by one" Michael> because that would refer to multiple rows. If you want to Michael> disable all filters, use the checkbox at the very top. My situation was I had a directory with both tifs and jpgs, and I wanted to see only the jpgs. So I wanted to temporarily disable the tif entry. I tried unchecking the checkbox by the tif line (without knowing what you tell me above), but that didn't seem to do anything, even after clicking Apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
