On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:32:23 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Bob Jamison <rjamison@...357...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Gtk2.4/gtkmm2.4 file dialogs
I just tried the new filedialog. I've never seen it before in any other program, and therefore I had not realized that it has one really bad problem: there's no text entry field for the filename anymore.
This means I cannot type in or paste a filename. All I can do is click click click, helplessly and infuriatedly. (Yes, I found I can press Ctrl+L from the dialog, but it's so stupid and inconvenient that I don't want to even discuss this. Besides, I actually read about it somewhere on the net - the dialog itself provides no clue on this hidden feature.)
OK, Gnome is free to blatantly disregard usability - I don't care, I don't use it anyway. But Inkscape is something I care about a lot.
there were endless usuability discussions and suggestions, they eventually went with one suggested design that was better in some ways and sucks in others.
I dont like the clever new location widget and I dont like that they have removed the text entry box for filenames/locations either.
I dont have it to hand but there is a bug report complaining about it and I'll post it later (but I encourage you to find it, complains about location bar and accessibitilty).
Hence my question: can we please restore the entry field and put default focus to it in the new dialog? If not, I think we should return to the old one.
The most important feature of the recent changes is the clean new FileChooser API. It should be relatively easy to completely replace the file chooser for everyone and aviod Inkscape specific solutions. (more ideas on how this could be done in a practical manner later).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/