Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:38:32AM +0200, Jan D. wrote:
> > The new file dialog is controversial, and many prefer the old one.
> 
> Yes; the "new dialogue", if I understand your meaning, is
> significantly worse than the old one in some ways.  Hopefully the
> gnome/gtk people can be induced to unsuckify it in the future, but
> in the meantime, it would be very good to allow users to choose the
> old one instead...

I don't think the new dialog is worse as soon as you figured out that
Ctrl-L brings up a dialog that allows to type in the filename. I agree
that this entry shouldn't be hidden.

If you are struggling with the fact that you can't distinguish files
and directories, you are simply missing icons. This can be fixed by
using an appropriate icon theme or by updating to gtk+ version 2.4.4.
The latter offers icons in the filechooser even if no icon theme is
being used.


Sven