Firefox - why is it better?

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 23:11 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:14 -0700, Michael Knepher wrote:
> > Just how is it keeping you from selecting your home directory? Just a
> > guess, you may be getting bit by the bug, er, I mean "feature", in the
> > latest gtk+ file selector that insists on selecting the first
> > subfolder in a folder. 

Could this be solved by having the GTK+ file selector not select a file,
but still focus in the right area of the dialog (ie place the keyboard
focus in the file selection area, but not select a file)?

Has anyone filed a bug against this?

> The new gtk+ file selector has to be the worst abomination in user
> interface design that I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. 
> 
> I just love the way that when I ask firefox to open something
> in /usr/bin/emacs, it takes five minutes to do so -- even _after_ I've
> actually typed <Ctrl-L> "/usr/bin/emacs" <Enter>. Sometimes I have to
> select 'emacs' again after it's finished scanning the whole of the
> contents of /usr/bin.

Again, has anyone filed a bug against this.

Surely this could be fixed by having the file selector quickly check
whether 'emacs' is a file or a folder and if it's a file then open it
without first doing a folder search.


If no-one has filed bugs against these two problems then I'm happy to do
so.


Rodd
-- 
"It's a fine line between denial and faith.
 It's much better on my side"