On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:15:02AM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > >Oh, hey, actually, I just discovered that you can (oh-so-obviously) hit > > >ctrl-L and type in a path. > > and the forward slash key "/" does the same thing (lets you type > > in a location, with file name completion, cool) > Matthew and Kenny, thanks for the replies and solutions. > Come to think of it the solutions are rather "obvious", and maybe > they are even mentioned in the gnome help (which I never bother > to read :)) or as a keyboard shortcut. I was kinda being sarcastic. I don't think it's obvious at all, and it's certainly *less* user-friendly than the old way, and less discoverable. > I actually tried Matthew's solution (ctrl-L) but on the original popup > window with the 2 choices and it doesn't work there. Never thought of > trying it on the file selector window. And, therefore, after you *do* pick something with ctrl-L, you have to hit Okay three times, somewhat negating any time-savings from the shortcut. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
