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Agreed. The ability to drag and drop a file or folder into a file dialog is absolutely brilliant, and one of the things I miss the most when I'm on Windows or

by copperx 10y ago

Agreed. The ability to drag and drop a file or folder into a file dialog is absolutely brilliant, and one of the things I miss the most when I'm on Windows or Linux. I have no idea why other systems haven't adopted that. Do they really expect us to awkwardly navigate the filesystem every time we open or save a file?

Kadin 10y ago
I thought you could get a similar behavior in Windows by dragging a folder into the path bar at the top of the 'Save' modal window. (I don't have a Windows machine or VM handy at the moment to test it, though.) You can definitely achieve a similar behavior by Ctrl-C'ing a directory and then Ctrl-V'ing into the File Name text box; the result populates the File Name with the copied directory's path. (Being able to get a folder's full path by copying it and pasting into a textarea is actually pretty nice, and arguably more useful than the Mac convention of grabbing the basename.) Since Apple screwed up the Open/Save dialogs a couple of updates back, I've actually come to appreciate the Windows open/save browser more by comparison. Being able to manipulate files from within Open/Save is a fairly neat trick, as is the ability to pull in remote files from within Open by pointing to a URI. I still can't exactly love Windows as an OS taken as a whole, but Apple's changes haven't improved things.
- mistersquid 10y ago
  > Since Apple screwed up the Open/Save dialogs a couple of updates back, I've actually come to appreciate the Windows open/save browser more by comparison. Being able to manipulate files from within Open/Save is a fairly neat trick, as is the ability to pull in remote files from within Open by pointing to a URI. I still can't exactly love Windows as an OS taken as a whole, but Apple's changes haven't improved things. Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan) allows users to manipulate the file system from Open/Save dialogs. Right/ctrl-clicking a file will reveal additional options. I don't think it's possible to put in an arbitrary URI, but if you have a remotely mounted volume you can navigate to those files. From my limited understanding, being able to download a file from an arbitrary URI by invoking an Open/Save dialog seems potentially troublesome, but does seem kinda neat in principle.
Sylos 10y ago
Works in KDE. They love their drag-and-drops, so I'm not surprised at all. Apple has probably solved this in a more elegant way (in one sense of the word anyways), but the way it works under KDE is that you drag the file into the Name-field and then it inserts the corresponding file://-URI.
72deluxe 10y ago
I also love right-clicking on a titlebar to see where the file is - it gives you a popup menu of the path. Really useful.

by copperx 10y ago

Kadin 10y ago

I thought you could get a similar behavior in Windows by dragging a folder into the path bar at the top of the 'Save' modal window. (I don't have a Windows machine or VM handy at the moment to test it, though.) You can definitely achieve a similar behavior by Ctrl-C'ing a directory and then Ctrl-V'ing into the File Name text box; the result populates the File Name with the copied directory's path. (Being able to get a folder's full path by copying it and pasting into a textarea is actually pretty nice, and arguably more useful than the Mac convention of grabbing the basename.) Since Apple screwed up the Open/Save dialogs a couple of updates back, I've actually come to appreciate the Windows open/save browser more by comparison. Being able to manipulate files from within Open/Save is a fairly neat trick, as is the ability to pull in remote files from within Open by pointing to a URI. I still can't exactly love Windows as an OS taken as a whole, but Apple's changes haven't improved things.

mistersquid 10y ago
> Since Apple screwed up the Open/Save dialogs a couple of updates back, I've actually come to appreciate the Windows open/save browser more by comparison. Being able to manipulate files from within Open/Save is a fairly neat trick, as is the ability to pull in remote files from within Open by pointing to a URI. I still can't exactly love Windows as an OS taken as a whole, but Apple's changes haven't improved things. Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan) allows users to manipulate the file system from Open/Save dialogs. Right/ctrl-clicking a file will reveal additional options. I don't think it's possible to put in an arbitrary URI, but if you have a remotely mounted volume you can navigate to those files. From my limited understanding, being able to download a file from an arbitrary URI by invoking an Open/Save dialog seems potentially troublesome, but does seem kinda neat in principle.

Sylos 10y ago

Works in KDE. They love their drag-and-drops, so I'm not surprised at all. Apple has probably solved this in a more elegant way (in one sense of the word anyways), but the way it works under KDE is that you drag the file into the Name-field and then it inserts the corresponding file://-URI.

72deluxe 10y ago

I also love right-clicking on a titlebar to see where the file is - it gives you a popup menu of the path. Really useful.