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Friday, February 3. 2006Today's Pet Peeve: Stupid GTK File-Open Dialogs
Have you noticed the incredibly annoying dialogs appearing in new Gnome/GTK apps in sid? They no longer allow you to use the keyboard to enter a filename. Not only that, but they are *incredibly* slow when working with large directories. You better go get some caffeine when if you need to open something under /usr/share/doc.
Here's an example from Firefox:  Other apps, such as Gimp, also have this problem. I have one thing to say to these people: WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? The keyboard is still a useful part of a computer, and I have absolutely no inclination to wait 45 seconds for some annoyingly slow dialog to populate because you prefered to remove the ability for me to enter a filename in a dialog box myself. Friday, February 3. 2006 |
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