On Fri, 27 May 2016 11:35:01 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> > wrote: [snip] > > I'll be really sad when gtk2 is totally abolished in Gentoo. :( > > I suppose I'll have to break down and switch to KDE maybe. > > > > In my opinion the upstream gtk developers have gone somewhat bonkers > > with their cartoonish changes to the look, feel and generally > > un-intuitive user interface. The new file selector is irritating > > to use despite getting all the old behaviour settings I know of > > set, the lack of the ability to paste a path into it, forcing you > > to navigate directory by directory, and other BS behaviour... > > What's wrong with Ctrl-L to open the "Enter location or URL" text > field and pasting the path there? > > Regards. The unintuitive knowledge that that even existed for one. I have been informed in IRC about this and tried it. I also found out that you can just paste it without opening that box (haven't tried that yet) . Also typing / will bring it up. Without a / will start a search... All unintuitive changes since gtk2. I admit I don't know all the in's and out's of gtk2 either, but in gtk2 there was a small icon to open the text/paste box if it wasn't already a default. Also what is intuitive about special keystrokes in a gui? After all gui stands for Graphical User Interface. Keyboard shortcuts are one thing, totally hiding them from the interface quite another. There is a reason I tend to prefer __GOOD__ gui apps over command line ones in most cases. I hate trying/needing to memorize 100+ special keystrokes and/or commands and/or options for apps. It's more I know what I want to do, so do the few clicks/done, not spend half my time trying to read man pages/learn/memorize _some_app_ special keystrokes and/or command option in order to do it. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
