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bnb2235

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Registered: 2011-02-13

Posts: 119

Gnome 3.16 file chooser dialog

I have some questions about the file chooser dialog in Gnome 3.16

I see at the gnome site that it states there is now a search button in the file chooser dialog. I see that.
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-not … re.html.en

However, it used to be possible that when this dialog was open, you could type in the file/directory list to quickly take you to a folder or file. This does not seem to work any more... It still works in Thunderbird for example when attaching a file (different dialog box, I know)

For example, if you had three folders in the open or save dialog of gedit or eog

alpha
bravo
charlie

If you typed "c", it would select the charlie folder.

Was it intentional that this possibility be removed? Does anyone else see what I see?

Thanks

TwosComplement

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Registered: 2010-10-16

Posts: 11

Re: Gnome 3.16 file chooser dialog

This is really bothering me about 3.16 too, alongside some dconf options no longer working.

w201

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Registered: 2012-10-04

Posts: 289

Re: Gnome 3.16 file chooser dialog

Dconf editor has completly vanished from my activities overview, well at least the GUI frontend, pacman shows that it's installed. Another function that seems to be gone in 3.16 is the ability to search for files from the activities overview!! I really hope that gets fixed soon :-(

Last edited by w201 (2015-04-12 23:26:17)

Gerd093

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Registered: 2015-03-06

Posts: 12

Re: Gnome 3.16 file chooser dialog

Dconf editor has completly vanished from my activities overview, well at least the GUI frontend, pacman shows that it's installed. Another function that seems to be gone in 3.16 is the ability to search for files from the activities overview!! I really hope that gets fixed soon :-(

reinstalling dconf-editor fixed that issue for me

FeRDNYC

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Registered: 2015-07-19

Posts: 2

Re: Gnome 3.16 file chooser dialog

This (the typeahead issue) is Gnome Bug #748672, and they report it's at least sorta fixed in 3.17.

Ubuntu, at least, have backported a fix to 3.16.4.

Last edited by FeRDNYC (2015-07-19 23:58:54)