Re: Iceweasel annoyance
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Joel Roth wrote: On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:55:16AM +, 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
survey about lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative in Debian
Dear Debian User, I apologize for spamming you with this. I kindly request you to take ten minutes to read my article under [1] on lbzip2, my parallel bzip2 utility, and to participate in this survey. Please choose exactly one of the four options below, and send me a mail with the corresponding mnemonic on the left as the sole word in the mail subject, and leave the mail body empty. lbzip2-opt-1 -- I'd like to have lbzip2 available as a bzip2 alternative. lbzip2-opt-2 -- I'd like to use lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative only in combination with tar. lbzip2-opt-3 -- I don't want to use lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative in any way. lbzip2-opt-4 -- I don't know / I don't care. I've no idea of what volume of answers to expect; nonetheless, I plan to release a raw count for each option in the evening of 24-NOV-2009 +0100. I'll try to get a subscriber count for debian-user if it's public and calculate the option frequencies relative to the number of answers and to the number of all subscribers. The summary will be released under the CC-BY-SA v3.0 license, see [2]. I will not release the full corpus of answers for privacy reasons. I will send the corpus to any Debian Developer who wants to see it, in a gpg-encrypted attachment. I think a sufficiently anonymized corpus could be published, but I personally won't risk that. (These last two paragraphs may be overkill for this survey. I'm trying to follow MJR's advice on surveys, see [3].) As additional info on lbzip2's scaling, I mention [4]. Thank you very much, Laszlo Ersek [1] http://debaday.debian.net/2009/11/12/lbzip2-parallel-bzip2-utility/ [2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ [3] http://people.debian.org/~mjr/surveys.html#advice [4] http://lacos.hu/lbzip2-scaling/scaling.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
