On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:43:44 +0000 (GMT), Jonathan Allen <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jim Higson said: > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by normal, either: > > > > b) you use GNOME but don't like the new GNOME dialogs, and have got > > OpenOffice to use it's generic (non NWF) ones. > > Exactly so. I use Gnome and don't like the new dialogues. Having > found relief for OO, I was disapppointed when GIMP went the same way. > > One of the problems with Ctrl-L (apart from its lack of intuitiveness) > is that it doesn't remember the context for the next time round. If you > want to open a set of files in a (non-home) directory, you do Ctrl-L > and put in the full pathname of the first file, then have to duplicate > the whole process for the second filename and so on. It might remember > the path and select the remote directory as its CWD. you could use bookmarks for now and file bugs at bugzilla.gnome.org. I suspect that this behaviour is application based. > > > I am certain there is no way to use the KDE save dialogs, nor the old > > GNOME ones. > > I am suprised that such a significant degregation of the user interface > made it through testing. Most of us cannot be in too many places at the > same time, so simply get dumped with whatever each community's "in thing" > is, usually without being asked, but this is such a large change for the > worse that I'm staggered that it can't be simply turned on or off by > an option on each program (like OO) or an environment variable. > > Jonathan > your opinion is subjective Regards, Rahul Sundaram
