Hi Hugh, On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 11:19 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> I have started to use the file manager (GNOME Files, a Nautilus > descendent) in the last couple of years. I've recently incorporated > its search capability into my workflow and find it more convenient > than locate(1) or especially find(1). Have you come across the file chooser behaviour where the search field takes the focus instead of the filename field? Example: in Firefox, I want to save a series of article pages that were uploaded as jpegs, but I want to rename them to page numbers instead of 40+ random-digit-filenames. If I click on the previous saved page, its name appears in the filename field with the digit (not the dot or the jpg extension) highlighted. If I type the next digit in the sequence, I'd like it to replace what's highlighted so I can press enter or click Save. Instead the new digit appears in a new search field. To put the focus where I want, I have to drag the mouse over the highlighted digit (even switching focus with Tab or ESC would be better). I asked about this and was told it's shared GTK code between the file chooser and file manager, and it's expected behaviour. It is or is like GTK issue #2638. Mike --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
