btw, turns out the usability issue is a current topic of discussion.
http://www.newsarch.com/archive/mailinglist/gnome/desktop/msg05029.html
There seems to be some sort of philosophical objection on the part of the gtk dialog developers to simply adding a text box. Though how in the world a hidden dialog access keystroke is better, I don't know. Note that their proposed '/' to open the dialog is of little to no use on windows, where a path is often begun with a drive letter.
Don't suppose there's any chance that a path entry text box could be added to ethereal's existing "extra widgets" section of the chooser dialog? I'm thinking that would be a bit non-trivial, as it would involve connecting with the dialog's own state plumbing.
Just a thought..
regards, Eric
Eric, BlueArc Engineering
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Subject: [Ethereal-dev] gtk2 file chooser: direct pathname entry
Since I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere in conjunction with ethereal, thought I'd let you know:
The gtk2 file open dialog does in fact permit entry of text pathnames. After bringing up the open dialog, type control-L and you will be presented with a little popup window where you can enter your path.
Nice feature, but the dialog itself gives absolutely no hint that the feature exists. Major bug, imho.
But at least until gtk2 gets its act together, this makes it somewhat usable (and also lets us benefit from the scrollbar memory which gtk2 has and gtk1 has lost in ethereal).
regards, Eric
ps: only tested in win32. Found this tidbit at this link:
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/03/16/2218241.shtml
Eric, BlueArc Engineering
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