GTK file selection dialog

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From: Jeremy Stephens
Subject: GTK file selection dialog
Date: 18:56 on 10 Aug 2006
Fellow haters,

Since it's been a week or so without any hate, I thought I'd express my 
hatred of the GTK+ file selection dialog.  Not only does it lock up 
Firefox for 2 minutes when I try to choose a program to open a file with 
from /usr/bin, but its filename completion is sketchy at best.  Say I 
want to upload a file to some site from /usr/share/cool-stuff, and I 
start typing the directory I want in the dialog.  Sometimes (this 
happens randomly as far as I can tell) the dialog will perform 
auto-expansion, so if I'm not paying attention and typing quickly the 
directory box will contain '/usr/share/are/co/cool-stuff'.  If I did 
happen to notice the expansion, and only typed '/ushco', the dialog 
would expand it correctly, but when I hit enter, I get an error that 
says something like, "'/usr/share/co' does not exist".

Apparently the newest version of GTK+ (2.10) addresses some of these 
issues, but it's not available in Debian yet.

Jeremy

-- 
Jeremy Stephens      Computer Systems Analyst I    School of Medicine
                     Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University

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