On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:55:16AM +0000, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:51:51 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > And you MUST use this browser window to select the application. You > > can't just type the name of the application in a box like you can when > > you edit your Applications menu. > > Quite agree. > > Similarly, what annoys me is the input text with the "browse" button for > local files (whenever you need to do upload, attachments etc), I have to > use that browser window to select the file. > > I'm a command line guy, I used to paste the abs path of the file (from > realpath) as string into the input text field and never bother with the > "browse" button to click, click, click, click. . . Now I can't. > > Iceweasel/firefox such Ms Winblow behavior and enforcement just annoys me > to death.
I think this is a (Gnome?) toolkit issue, since I encounter the same totalitarian file-selection widget in several apps. "What green, wide-eyed youngster wrote that?" I wonder. I'd prefer text input (especially with ReadLine style tab completion) any day! > -- > Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
