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Idea #2178: Better Gtk Open File Dialog

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #1199: Improve the "Save as..." and "Open file" Nautilus mini-browser.
Written by hubertf the 1 Mar 08 at 13:50. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
The gtk open file dialog is a pain to use...

-> No thumbnails for images
-> No many way to sort the files
-> No way to cut and paste files...
-> and it's very slow when opening a directory with many files
Tags: gtk usability

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forum Ubuntuforums.org thread #811795


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andrewfenn wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 14:00
Check out firefox 3 beta 3. Already in there.

hubertf wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 14:03
I speak about the GTK file open dialog (which is in all GTK+ applications) and not about the old FF2 Open Dialog

omidmottaghi wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 14:10
the first item implemented in the -future- 2.22 version

miketech wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 17:54
Yeah good point! Opening /usr/bin needs lot of time here.

Additionally to cut/paste: Rename, Delete


strogon14 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 18:02
Also, there's no visual indication, how to view hidden (dot9 files. You have to know, that you must enter their path (or part of) directly.

My file dialog now shows the hidden directories in my home dir by default and I have no idea how to turn this off.

sourcejedi wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 18:21
-> No way to refresh. Doesn't refresh automatically (i.e. using inotify).

+1

jsnow wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 01:30
The gnome file-save dialog is pretty awful; rather than typing it all out again, here's my commentary:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195957&cid=16057532

Here's the larger context of my rant:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195957&cid=16057284

mribecky wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 10:44
+1 Hate when I create a folder in the wrong place and have to open nautilus to delete it.

@strogon Right click > Show hidden files

tobiasly wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 14:49
Agree wholeheartedly. I finally "made the switch" from Windows and was extremely disappointed to find that such an oft-used feature as the standard Open and Save dialogs are so horribly crippled in Gnome. I'm not a big fan of KDE so I'd really like this to be improved in the "default" desktop.

Even an "open this folder in Nautilus" option would be an improvement!

felixtz wrote on the 16 Oct 08 at 18:35
There should be a file name filter.

e.g. *.htm would list only .htm files.

And, to be more specific about one of the suggestions above, the dialog box should have the option to sort on file name extensions.

Also, history would be nice so that particular, often used, file names can be entered without extensive navigation.

One wonders why the whole Nautilus UI is not used for open/save.

pcgaldo wrote on the 30 Nov 08 at 01:11
I've attached the Ubuntuforums.org thread #811795.

For me and other people the speed problems are solved disabling the tracker daemon.

We can use Beagle instead.

pcgaldo wrote on the 30 Nov 08 at 01:31
Some icon packages also slow down browsing in a GTK dialog.

In my case I found problems with "elementary 1.9" icon set.

dekaru wrote on the 25 Dec 08 at 01:50
Right click options should be consistent with the actions allowed from Thunar/Nautilus.

ohiolinux wrote on the 19 May 09 at 20:06
Open File should have an option to use "icon view" like the icon view in Nautilus. This would provide larger thumbnails so it would be much easier to select pictures.

simosx wrote on the 25 May 09 at 18:29
Once you get Ubuntu support for this issue and you get the attention of a developer (or if someone from this list can help to develop),
see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gtk%2B
for features requests relevant to the Open/Save dialogs.
In gtk+ lingo, you want to add a feature to the 'file chooser'.

inductiveload wrote on the 13 Sep 10 at 04:57
This bug already exists in the GTK+ Bugzilla system, and has been open since 2005, with several other bugs marked as duplicates. As far as I can see, no word from a GTK+ dev as yet. Sigh.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325150


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