GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 308331
Expanding "Browse for other folders" expander should move focus to browsing widgets
Last modified: 2005-06-20 03:14:09 UTC
Distribution/Version: ubuntu hoary Steps to reproduce bug: 1. Choose "Save" from a GNOME/GTK application 2. Type Alt-B to open the "Browse for other folders..." expander 3. Start typing name of folder I want to browser to. 4. Discover focus has not moved! Alas, I'm typing over my file name. Expected behavior: The focus should move to the treeview of filenames (on the righthand side) when I expand the browse widget. It should go there (and not to the bookmarks on the left) since I could access the bookmarked folders more quickly by typing "Alt-F" and seeing the folders. Further confusion is caused by the folder selector being desensitized. Why can't I use this convenient menu bar anymore? If I change my mind and decide I want a bookmarked folder after all, I no longer have a fast keyboard way to do so (Alt-f + arrows). This is all a special case of a more generic bug in the file selector: there are no mnemonics to allow me to get quickly to the treeview showing the current directory. This is a problem because there are so many controls in the view that tabbing between e.g. the filename and the view is not efficient as it was, say, in the Mac OS 8 file selector.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308326 ***