GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 332270
Revert GtkFileChooser to browser behavior.
Last modified: 2006-02-24 22:28:22 UTC
I tailed #168611 with this; but this really, really belongs in its own discussion itself. The discussion here is about getting rid of the "Expand" behavior of GtkFileChooser; that is, reverting GtkFileChooser's model to immediately displaying a list of files and folders, as with current File Roller's "Other..." choice in its dropdown. This was from #ubuntu on freenode, February 22 2006 10:55 EST: <bluefoxicy> Does anyone here actually find GNOME's save dialog (with the triangle dropdown, or the dropdown that goes to "Other" to bring up a folder browser) actually nice? <bluefoxicy> or is it pretty much universal that hiding the directory browser was a BAD idea? <bluefoxicy> I'm trying to throw this as an argument on a bug on GNOME's bugzilla, arguing to REMOVE the whole "Expand to browse" save dialog design in GtkFileChooser; so speak now . . . <wastrel> bluefoxicy: good luck with that. <cradek> bluefoxicy: pisses me off that I can't just type a bloody path now <wastrel> bluefoxicy: it's frustrating, idiotic and plain difficult to use. <cradek> bluefoxicy: I wonder whose bright idea that was <bluefoxicy> cradek: in 2.13 I believe you can. <wastrel> bluefoxicy: i loathe it <dooglus> cradek: you can type control-l and then a path. (I filtered out all non-relavent conversation; anything that was said in response to the question I posed was left in) The conversation seems to have died in about 3 minutes, but the overall reaction was "yes it's a horribly designed pile of crap." I suggest sampling of the userbase; polling code for the gnome.org front page and a "Poll of the Week" comes to mind but :) This seems to be a very visible trend. A LOT of people seem to have a strong hate relationship with the current design of GtkFileChooser. I don't think I need to make any stronger argument here; let the discussion begin. Other information:
Please stop dumping irc discussions into bugzilla. If you want to have a discussion about the design of the file chooser, bugzilla is not the right medium for it. Try the mailing lists, e.g. And honestly, before people hated the new file chooser, they hated the old file chooser even more. Get over it, or use dnd from your file manager of choice...
How do I DND from a file manager to save a file to a new one? Reopening bug, as Matthias clearly did not understand the issue.
Created attachment 60084 [details] screenshot of the GtkFileChooser save-as dialog Uploading a screen shot so people stop taking this as "Oh look the Open Dialog is ugly" when I'm talking about the Save As dialog. This has been an issue multiple times and despite trying to explain to people that I'm talking about the "Browse for other folders" expander in the "Save As" dialogs, they still take hours to figure out what I'm talking about.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153828 ***
I'm going to keep closing bugs in which you just dump irc logs of "conversations which died after 3 minutes"...