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Bug 681900 - Ctrl+L does not work when file chooser is in "Recently used" mode
Ctrl+L does not work when file chooser is in "Recently used" mode
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 660450
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFileChooser
3.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
Federico Mena Quintero
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-08-15 09:30 UTC by Sam Thursfield
Modified: 2013-05-26 09:08 UTC
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Description Sam Thursfield 2012-08-15 09:30:50 UTC
Using Fedora 16 (gtk3 3.2.4-1), but reproduced using Gtk from jhbuild

Context: I was repeatedly trying to upload the same file using Epiphany, because it kept failing (unrelated bug). Each time the file chooser popup opened I was returned to the "Recently used" files, where the file was not listed, and had to laboriously navigate through the filesystem to locate it again. I worked around this by copying the path to the clipboard, so I could just paste it into the location bar and press enter, but because ctrl+L doesn't work in "Recently used" mode I was still slowed down by having to click on a regular location in the sidebar first.

There are various usability discussion that could come out of this, but a simple fix would be make the Ctrl+L shortcut work in recently used mode as well, so keyboard users can easily jump to a file after opening the dialog without first having to click on an on-disk location in the sidebar.
Comment 1 Timothy Arceri 2013-05-26 09:08:33 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 660450 ***