Re: GTK file selector dialog with help text too small

[Jan Djärv]

Miles Bader skrev:
> Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
> > In Gtk+ 2.10 '/' or '~' opens a second entry box which is different from the 
> > C-l one.  You can type stuff in the second entry box, but it doesn't seem to 
> > do anything with the text you type there, that is hitting return just hides 
> > the entry box again and does nothing.
>
> The little sub-dialog you get from typing `/' seems to work for me -- If
> I enter a filename in there, and hit RET, the "main" file dialog jumps
> directly to that file, and I can then just hit OK to give it to Emacs.

Are you running 2.10?  In previous versions there was a subdialog, but in 2.10 
there is no more sub dialog, but a text field integrated in to the main dialog 
that is shown or hidden.

The behaviour I wrote about above seems to have changed in 2.10.3 (0r 2.10.2, 
I went from 2.10.1 to 2.10.3), I can no longer get the little sub-entry box. 
It was probably a bug.

> BTW, on a slightly tangential point, I notice that the GTK file dialog
> in Emacs has a huge honkin' message that says "if you don't like this
> file dialog you can do ... to turn it off".
>
> While this is indeed useful information for a surprised user in some
> circumstance, it negatively affects the layout of the file dialog, and I
> imagine could annoy somebody that uses the dialog regularly.  Is there a
> way to disable that "warning" text?

Yes, customize x-gtk-file-dialog-help-text.  Should I put it in NEWS?  It is 
in frames.texi.  Now that I changed the names of variables as suggested by 
Reiner Steib, the Gtk-related variables begin with x-gtk-.

I will change the text so that the C-l part is not shown for Gtk+ 2.10 and 
newer.

> Also, it occurs to me that some users might like it if Emacs would
> simply use the little "sub-file-dialog" (which you get by hitting C-l in
> the main GTK file dialog) directly, without going through the
> complicated main file dialog box; is there anyway of doing that?

Nope, I tried, but the details to pop it up is buried inside gtk internals.
Unless you count C-x C-f :-).  And anyway, Gtk+ 2.10 has a text entry box 
integrated into the dialog.  It even has a button to toggle that text entry box.

        Jan D.