309098 - Provide option of directory name, in "attachments" which was removed.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Jont Allen (Prof ECE UIUC)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908)

This "bug" report is regarding a developer choice, not a real "bug." 
 
When attaching a file, there is no directory for the file offered. This, in my 
view, is a MAJOR mistake. I may even need to stop using thunderbird if this is 
not corrected. It is very tedious to find a file to attach with out the option 
of typing in (or cut and paste) the directory name where the file is. 
I frequently have the file 6 dirs deep. Finding the file in such a directory 
structure is a nightmare, unless you can cut and paste the directory name, as 
for example, in version 1.0.4, the previous version I used. 
 
Please, oh Please restore the dir name, or at least provide it as an option I 
can turn on. 
 
Jont Allen 
[e-mail] 
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Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
NA 

Expected Results:  
NA

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I guess you are talking about the (native) gtk file picker? I agree, a path
input would be nice. Howver, platform integration isn't going to stop. Probably
you should try to influnece the gnome developers if you want this changed...

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** Bug 310149 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

the native gtk filepicker does have a text location entry, you just have to hit
ctrl-l to get to it. also the folder list has typeahead selection so hitting a
few leading chars and enter per folder level suffices. you just have to sort of
fall face-first onto the keyboard to discover these features, I guess...

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sounds like not a nice change.
in windows, you can type directory name(s) in the file name field of the file picker. 

Comment 5

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

wfm -- location entry where directory to look in can be entered can be accessed via / or ctrl-l or Open Location in file list context menu. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541 seems to say that a button to open the location entry also appears in gtk head since May.

see also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331404 etc.