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Old 05-06-2008, 12:10 AM   #16
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... I don't seem to have this same issue.
Yes you do. Change the about:config as A.Bob described and you'll see the difference.
 
Old 05-06-2008, 05:23 AM   #17
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Yes you do. Change the about:config as A.Bob described and you'll see the difference.
Okay, what is the problem in this screenshot? I still don't see it.
 
Old 05-06-2008, 06:02 AM   #18
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Your second screenshot file-open-dialog1.png shows the old dialog that we all prefer - you can type a path there, and this is the dialog box that we had in the past.

Your first screenshot file-open-dialog.png shows the dialog box that is being used by GTK based applications in Slackware 12.1. It is very different, lacks an input field by default (which you can enable by clicking on the notepad icon in the top-left) but this input field tries to do auto-completion of the text you type. This often results in a lot of backspaces to erase duplicate characters that you were typing when GTK was trying the autocomplete... very annoying.

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Old 05-06-2008, 07:13 AM   #19
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Thank you for the explanation. Now I know what is the undesired behavior.

Perhaps what really threw me off was the complaint of it being tiny, since
it's so easy to use the mouse to enlarge the dialog box.
 
  


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