GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 170757
choosing a directory in the (new) file chooser is confusing
Last modified: 2005-03-20 00:37:00 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu, Hoary When selecting a directory in the new file selector, it is confusing because if you double click a directory (the one you want) and then click open, it selects the first directory in the opened directory. You need to select the directory in the parent directory to get it. While this seems like sane behavior, it is confusing for some users, especially when the old file selector behaved differently, and selected the directory you had open unless you specifically clicked on a directory in the one that was open. Possible solution would be to list a current directory item when in directory selection mode as the first item thats selected, but thats just a suggestion, I have no idea of the usability or whatever of that, given we don't list either . or .. currently. Another possible solution would be to not select the first item when you open a directory (perhaps just in directory find mode), but that seems unclean to me. Thoughts?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166836 ***