[ALUG] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Horrible file browser - how can I change it?

[Eur Ing Chris Green]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 07:31:06PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 07:09:29PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 06:10:19PM +0000, Rob Page wrote:
> > > Hi Chris,
> > > 
> > > Ctrl-l in those dialogues should bring up a text box to type/paste into.
> > > 
> > Coo, it does too, thanks.
> > 
> > However it does seem a bit of a retrograde step.  It should at least
> > be possible to get an alternative interface that suits a more
> > techie/power-user/old-fashioned/call-it-what-you-will type of user.
> 
> But that's not what Gnome is about ;) (Yes, I bloody hate the Gnome file
> dialog, it annoys me rather a lot, but then as I really don't use that
> many Gnome apps, it doesn't make too much of a lasting impression - I
> also hate the OpenOffice.org file dialogs... and the KDE ones... you
> know, the last time I was reasonably happy with a file dialog was the
> GTK 1 file dialog, still in use by xmms... it doesn't annoy me half as
> much as the others :)
> 
For some applications there appears to be no alternative though - e.g.
Firefox and VMWare.  For me it's particularly annoying with VMware as
I rarely restart my VMware guests and when I do that awful file open
dialog opens up and I can never find where my VMWare images are kept.

-- 
Chris Green