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The lack of typeahead in GtkFileChooser is my biggest annoyance that I've ever come across. Ever since I started using computers nearly 25 years ago I used type
by mard 6y ago
The lack of typeahead in GtkFileChooser is my biggest annoyance that I've ever come across. Ever since I started using computers nearly 25 years ago I used typeahead to navigate through directories and I can't imagine doing it otherwise. The idea of removing typeahead is anti-human to me, I couldn't adapt even though I really tried to.
- jopsen 6y agoYeah, the first thing I do after installing Linux has always been to replace nautilus with something else. Nautilus is pretty, and for the most part fairly nice. But lacking typeahead just makes it unusable.
- vidarh 6y agoWhich makes me think the biggest problem with the file selector as described is not that it's flawed, but that it's hard to replace. One of the thing I loved about the Amiga was that because of how the API was structured, it was easy to replace things like this, as you could patch every API endpoint. As a result, it took very little time before more advanced replacements for the standard file requester appeared. You "just" had to patch (via OS-provided functions) a couple of library calls.
- Rompect 6y agoSo true. That is the biggest concern that I have with Linux overall.