Fellow haters,
Since it's been a week or so without any hate, I thought I'd express my
hatred of the GTK+ file selection dialog. Not only does it lock up
Firefox for 2 minutes when I try to choose a program to open a file with
from /usr/bin, but its filename completion is sketchy at best. Say I
want to upload a file to some site from /usr/share/cool-stuff, and I
start typing the directory I want in the dialog. Sometimes (this
happens randomly as far as I can tell) the dialog will perform
auto-expansion, so if I'm not paying attention and typing quickly the
directory box will contain '/usr/share/are/co/cool-stuff'. If I did
happen to notice the expansion, and only typed '/ushco', the dialog
would expand it correctly, but when I hit enter, I get an error that
says something like, "'/usr/share/co' does not exist".
Apparently the newest version of GTK+ (2.10) addresses some of these
issues, but it's not available in Debian yet.
Jeremy
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Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst I School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
