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.