GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 378433
File chooser lacks keyboard input to enter path
Last modified: 2006-11-23 14:37:18 UTC
Add textbox to enter path manually, ideally inteligent, with autocompletion and indicating the valid part of the path somehow (for instance with different text color). Other information: This was bugging me for a long time, but today my patience was over, The purpose of this is by no means to offend anyone, only to show the importance and show, how dramatically usability is impacted. People, the file chooser is nice for non-pro's, but it's HORRIBLE for those, used to type path with auto-completion or in a situations when you want to paste the path from clipboard. KDE has it (very nice) and, please, even windows explorer allowes you to type in the path!!! Nothing is perfect, BUT this issue is different, It is a thing that should not be! Thank you all! OSS Rules! And keep up a good work, guys!
hi, which gtk version and which distro is this? have you tried "control + L" in the file chooser? i think this should cover all of your requests? :-)
It's GTK 2.8 hey, cool! This gets ME somewhere :) Thanks!!! A few more suggestions though... [Below "I" is meant to be "Me and probably lots of other people".] 1) I can hardly imagine where/how I would find the information about CTRL-L myself. (BTW, which manual is this? There must be plenty other useful things...) 2) Just a little problem for pure typists :)) It's still for semi-typists I guess. when I type two characters "/u" I get "/usr/" automatically. Since I type such paths using my spinal cord :), which is rather adapted to xterm-like need-to-press-tab-to-autocomplete, I always get typo's :) Would be great if to autocomplete-without-explicitely-pressing-tab or not could be at least configured by user. Pressing Tab explicitly does autocomplete now too, It should stay this way IMHO. Thank you very much INDEED!
A filename entry was added to the dialog itself in GTK+ 2.10. If you are using an older version, you can hit Control-L to access a sub-dialog with the filename entry. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136541 ***