Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Eckersley
things are at present. Guess I made my point :) -- Peter Eckersley Department of Computer Science & mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] IP Research Institute of Australia http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde The Universit

Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

2006-03-23 Thread Peter Eckersley
for one would pay $50 to anyone who can implement a configuration option somewhere in gtk2 to globally switch back to the gtk1 version. Is anyone else equally frustrated? cc on replies, -- Peter Eckersley Department of Computer Science & mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Eckersley
TK2 chooser. It works fine, but *only* if the file path you want to type starts with / . Typing relative paths, or paths that start with ~, leads to random crazyness. -- Peter Eckersley Department of Computer Science & mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] IP Research Institute o

More on GTK usability

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Eckersley
onsistently and without sacrificing much efficiency (though it doesn't handle dotfiles perfectly, that could easily be fixed). If the *nix desktop is moving in that direction, someone should really get around to building a new command line shell that is GUI-fied and does things the same way. But th

Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Eckersley
hen, I realise that I have to press enter again. I for one would pay $50 to anyone who can implement a configuration option somewhere in gtk2 to globally switch back to the gtk1 version. Is anyone else equally frustrated? -- Peter Eckersley Department of Computer Science &