Export dialog/window's filename widget is unpleasant to use
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Inkscape |
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Bug Description
The following has bothered me for years in the export dialog:
- The file path inside the "filename" text entry is visual noise (9 times out of 10)
- The text entry is not wide enough to accomodate both the path and filename. Most of the times, you get "/home/
- Typing the path, without the autocompletion that is offered by a real filechooser, is a PITA
- The Browse button has the wrong icon
- You can't drag and drop a file onto that widget to indicate what you'd like to overwrite as (you can, with standard widgets)
- The dialog doesn't remember its size (so it's no use trying to work around the shortness of the text entry)
Possible solutions/
- Get rid of the text entry, only put a real File picker (Browse) button to pick both the path and filename using the gtk filechooser
- Redesign the whole thing around a built-in filechooser widget
- Use a standard folder chooser combobox widget, and below it put a text entry for the filename only
- Strip the cwd and replace it with "./", but that's too geek.
I'm willing to design mockups if you'd like one of the solutions above.
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