On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:02:56AM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 2/16/07, Eur Ing Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
The default file browser that appears when, for example, I try to open a file from Firefox is awful. I get the same file selector for most applications now, it's a fairly recent 'imporvement', I've only had since I upgraded to Slackware 11.
Sounds Gnome-ish to me. I don't know if it can be changed - look for different bindings to install. Here in Ubuntuland I can only see "firefox-gnome-support" as an available package (and it's installed!)
I've dug around a little and it's actually the GTk 2.x file selector, used by many applications as the default file selector. It can be skinned (and I've found lots of XFCE skins for it) but nothing changes its inherent horribleness.
There's quite a few other complaints about it that you find when you do a Google search for it.