GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 306491
Selecting (opening) folders with current UI is very difficult
Last modified: 2005-06-07 21:37:58 UTC
This is similar to Bug#:306089 Selecting folders with GtkFileChooser is akward, especially when trying to choose a folder in the bookmarks. "Home" and "Desktop" act as root folders which negates the ablility to select them unless you navigate through "filesystem". Custom Bookmarks, when clicked on, enter the folder. This means you need to navigate a folder back and then choose the bookmarked folder - hardly intuitive. A slightly different way of using the file chooser is needed for choosing folders. Other information:
Created attachment 47239 [details] mockup of a new method Something like: void gtk_file_chooser_set_folders_only (GtkFileChooser *chooser, gboolean folders_only); would be useful to change the behaviour for choosing folders. See attached mock-up Selecting the Bookmark sets the current selection as the location of the bookmark. The current directory is shown at the top of the list so it can be selected, the contents indented to separate them, like a 1-tier folder tree. I don't know if this is possible, or the best way to do it, but the current method is rather awkward
Bug 306771 addresses your first complaints as well. Your mockup is kind of an enhancement request and not neccessarily related to the issues you describe in your initial opening comment.
If you click on a folder in the bookmarks list and then click the OK button (or whatever the confirmation button is called), the dialog will close and it will accept the folder.