Re: GTK file selector

[Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>]

 Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Juri Linkov: 

 > >> Is there something to configure I missed?
 > >
 > > No, just hit / in the dialog, this gives you a small window where you
 > > can enter the path and filename. You can also use C-l to open the dialog
 > > box.
 > >
 > > Yes, this sucks like hell.
 > 
 > 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 others.

It’s an irony if you ignore that their goal was to design a dialog 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 new
 > GTK2 dialogs, Emacs could set such an option by default.

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