On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:02:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:29:33PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
I now hate that file dialog even more than I did when it first appeared, not only is it a pain to use, it's semi-broken as well.
Ok, getting tired of your rants about it now, just don't use it maybe?
[...]
It's actually pretty hard to avoid that disaster zone dialogue: Firefox-based browsers and Gimp being the two hardest things to replace that I can think of. At least browsers don't open file dialogues too often, especially if you can configure your file manager to -remote it and you tell it to always save to a downloads dir.
Or am I missing some tricks to build Iceweasel and Gimp against another toolkit?
Yes, that really would be useful. I hit that dialogue mostly in Firefox (though less so now that I tend to use wget to do downloads). I hit it last night because I wanted to look at a local .JPG file and since Firefox was open it was the obvious thing to do.
Oh, and I also get a sort of variety of it when using k3b.
Most of the rest of the time everything I do is command line based so I don't see it.