From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK file selector Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:52:34 +0100 Message-ID: <17313.37186.344268.487103@parhasard.net> References: <1134552456.439fe58850f31@imp5-g19.free.fr> <878xuma53q.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134673226 17301 80.91.229.2 (15 Dec 2005 19:00:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 20:00:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmyJn-0007wb-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:59:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmyKQ-0005If-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EmvxK-0004CL-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Emvrf-0002V5-MX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:21:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmvPy-0002Tb-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:53:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.111.49.30] (helo=icarus.conall.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EmvSE-00084e-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: by icarus.conall.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 6AB958008C; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:52:34 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <878xuma53q.fsf@jurta.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid X-Echelon-distraction: Johohonbu mailbomb ISEP NSG SAS Kwajalein X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47796 Archived-At: Ar an c=C3=BAigi=C3=BA l=C3=A1 d=C3=A9ag de m=C3=AD na Nollaig, scr=C3=AD= obh Juri Linkov:=20 > >> Is there something to configure I missed? > > > > No, just hit / in the dialog, this gives you a small window where yo= u > > can enter the path and filename. You can also use C-l to open the di= alog > > box. > > > > Yes, this sucks like hell. >=20 > What an irony that the goal of Gnome developers was to design an easy-= to-use > file dialog, and now no one can use it without hints acquired from oth= ers. It=E2=80=99s an irony if you ignore that their goal was to design a dialo= g that was easy to use for naive users. In 2005, naive users do not use any form of emacs, in general, and even the experts are abandoning it today. > If there is some option that restores the old reasonable behavior in n= ew > GTK2 dialogs, Emacs could set such an option by default. --=20 I AM IN JAIL AND ALLOWED SEND ONLY ONE CABLE SINCE WAS ARRESTED WHILE MEASURING FIFTEEN FOOT WALL OUTSIDE PALACE AND HAVE JUST FINISHED COUNTIN= G THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDERED TWENTY TWO NAMES WHOS WHO IN MIDEAST.