Public bug reported:
The new implementation of the GtkFilechooser (2.12) is great: we now
have 'Recent files' and 'Search' in the 'Places' bar. But these two new
items don't need the same UI space at th top of the selector. So when
you click them, they move up, and when you choose a standard location,
they move down, and the whole file list goes with them. For example,
when you click 'Recent', your mouse lands up on 'Home', and vice-versa.
This is not convenient for the user, it makes us lose our marks!
Space used at the top of the selector should be made the same so that
the items never move a pixel. This is a standard behavior to help
processing efficiently tasks. This should be a rule of the HIG.
I hope somebody here has got ways to contact some GNOME developers, because
this may be fixed simply with a little padding:
- for the 'Search' item, only a few pixels must be added, almost unnoticeable
for the UI design
- for the 'Recent' item, maybe a label repeating 'Recently used files' could
simply be added to stabilize the widgets' position. With search this label
already appears together with a textbox (needed to type the keywords), and with
standard locations, the filesystem hierarchy is shown. An redundant label would
not harm much, and would be very useful to make the Filechooser easier to use.
Anybody supporting this?
** Affects: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[Gutsy] Filechooser 'Places' items should not move up and down the whole UI
when selected
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152593
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