287281 - gtk2 file selection (filepicker) dialog is horrible

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Anton Graph]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I could not just type a path in the widget you use for file selection.
I have to walk thru the stupid file tree doing a lot of scrolling and
mousclicking. Short of ditching gtk2 could you fix that menutil?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to some mail site like mail.yahoo.com or gmail.com
2. Compose a message
3. Attach a file: you have to do a lot of clicking a scrolling to get to the
right directory.

Actual Results:  
I got really **** after performing these steps repeatedly

Expected Results:  
I should be able to type in directory name and the freaking widget is supposed
to validate the path I typed. Or not.

Could you ditch gtk2 in favor of something that is
1. Fast
2. Is not annoying
3. Polished (Tk?)

Just look at the sheer number of gtk2 bugs you have.

Comment 1

[nandhp]

I completely agree that the GtkFileCooser sucks, but I don't think that going
back to using a non-standard file chooser is the right answer. A better solution
is simply to fix this GTK bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541
. This has the added benifit that it will be fixed for all GTK applications, not
just Firefox.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We're not dropping this.   If the platform needs to be improved, that's the
answer, not reinventing the wheel.

Btw, Ctrl-L lets you autocomplete, of course its not that discoverable, but
that's apparently "better" or something.

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 319157 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 320212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 332326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***