Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

[Brian Dolbec]

On Fri, 27 May 2016 11:35:01 -0500
Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
> wrote: [snip]
> > I'll be really sad when gtk2 is totally abolished in Gentoo. :(
> > I suppose I'll have to break down and switch to KDE maybe.
> >
> > In my opinion the upstream gtk developers have gone somewhat bonkers
> > with their cartoonish changes to the look, feel and generally
> > un-intuitive user interface.  The new file selector is irritating
> > to use despite getting all the old behaviour settings I know of
> > set, the lack of the ability to paste a path into it, forcing you
> > to navigate directory by directory, and other BS behaviour...
>
> What's wrong with Ctrl-L to open the "Enter location or URL" text
> field and pasting the path there?
>
> Regards.

The unintuitive knowledge that that even existed for one.

I have been informed in IRC about this and tried it.  I also found out
that you can just paste it without opening that box (haven't tried
that yet) . Also typing / will bring it up.  Without a / will start a
search...

All unintuitive changes since gtk2.  I admit I don't know all the in's
and out's of gtk2 either, but in gtk2 there was a small icon to open
the text/paste box if it wasn't already a default.

Also what is intuitive about special keystrokes in a gui?  After all
gui stands for Graphical User Interface.  Keyboard shortcuts are one
thing, totally hiding them from the interface quite another.  There is
a reason I tend to prefer __GOOD__ gui apps over command line ones
in most cases.  I hate trying/needing to memorize 100+ special
keystrokes and/or commands and/or options for apps.  It's more I know
what I want to do, so do the few clicks/done, not spend half my time
trying to read man pages/learn/memorize _some_app_ special keystrokes
and/or command option in order to do it.

-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen>