Hello, I don't know where else to vent other than this list, so forgive if inappropriate.
I have just upgraded to "mandriva 2006", which includes Gimp 2.2 (IIRC - I am writing from my old office machine which has 1.0.4....). I was well-used to 1.2. Haven't had time to extensively check out the newest version, and I'm sure it has a lot of nifty new features: BUT one think that irks me right away is not having any option to type in a filename on the 'open' dialogue! The tab-completion feature of the older gimps were excellent and very useful. I usually know that the image I want is in, eg "~/web/hvr/webready/raw", and typing that in, especially with tab-completion is *WAY* faster than mousing through some list of dirs. Also, I sometimes want to work on files in a dot-prefixed directory, like .fluxbox/backgrounds. Guess what? They don't show up in the list! This problem seems to be rampant in other 'new and improved' apps - gdm, for instance. No way to get any .fluxbox/backgrounds in the gtk+ greeter, that's for sure! IMHO, any app which is asking for a filename as input should give both a keyboard-oriented and a mouse-oriented means of providing it. How much extra work is that to program? *Especially* when it has already been done, and done well, in previous versions??! /rant Scott Swanson _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
