On 10 May 2018 at 14:53, Stefan Klinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi, few question that I could not find an answer for via Google or > Stack Overflow, nor via the provided Gnome documentation. But I guess > you developers would know: > > How can I configure the file chooser? > The general answer is: you don't. The file chooser is not an application. GtkFileChooser does have a few settings, but are mostly for storing state. > > * Always open in a mode where I can paste a file name into a text > field, or can start typing a path (with tab-completion) > > Currently (e.g., with GIMP 2.10.0) it always opens in Recently > Used mode, so I have to switch to one of the other "Places" and > then hit Ctrl-L. I don't even want to hit Ctrl-L. > You can set the default location on open: gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser startup-mode 'recent' will use the recently opened files; 'cwd' will use the current work directory of the process that launched the file chooser dialog. If the application sets a location programmatically, the location will be preferred to either values. > * When entering a path (Firefox), sometimes I see completion happen > only when I hit Tab, and sometimes it just happens automatically > (which is extremely annoying). This behaviour seems to change > "automatically". At least I don't know how to fix this to > complete only when I hit Tab. > Completion will happen if there's only one result; the Tab key is necessary if there's ambiguity. > * When I change the File Chooser's window size, or toggle visibility > of hidden files, please don't remember these settings. I want > them temporary. > That's not possible. > * I cannot remove some entries from the "Places" list. How can I > change this? Even better: Is there a way to show a nice file > system tree instead of this "places" thing? > You can't change the Places, and you can't have a file system tree. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com]
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