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On Monday 22 May 2017 18:33:47 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> Having just recently allowed Firefox to upgrade from 45 to 52, I'm now |
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> hobbled with the GTK3 file browser dialog. |
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> It's horrible. |
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> First of all, it's freaking _huge_! It wastes acres of display |
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> real-estate. It was obviously designed by a megalomaniac who thinks |
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> your computer belongs to him, and that while his filebrowser code is |
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> running, nothing else must be visible. |
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Hmm ... I haven't noticed this here. |
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> I used to be able to just start typing a path. Now, that triggeres |
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> some bizzarre "search" feature that shows a spinner for a minutes at a |
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> time shows a long list of files I don't care about. |
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You can go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced and deselect 'Search for text when I |
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start typing' |
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> I've discovered that hitting Ctrl-L makes it minimally functional, and |
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> I can at least enter a path again. |
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> I shall probably die still longing for the days of GTK2... |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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