Enter path in dialogs

[Ofnuts]

(04-13-2022, 11:21 PM)kiwichick Wrote:

(04-13-2022, 07:03 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:

• When you enter the dialog, it is set to Recent files so you have no other choice but the list of recent files/directories
  
• If you click on Search on the left, you get an entry field at the top. You can enter (part of) a file name and it will list all matching files in you user files in the widget below (this can take a while...)
  
• If you click on anything else on the left (so, a path to a directory), the path id displayed at the top with a pencil icon at the extreme left. If you click that icon an entry field appears and if you paste in it
  • a file path:  the file is opened directly
    
  • a directory: the directory contents are shown
    
• In all cases, if you drag & drop an object from your file explorer to the the big list widget:
  • a file: the parent directory contents are shown and the file is pre-selected
    
  • a directory: the directory contents are shown
    

(this is how it behaves on Linux but IIRC the Windows behavior isn't very different).

Thanks for that, I'm aware of pretty much all of those. No, the pencil icon does not appear on a Windows system. It really annoys me because GIMP Help says the same thing (and shows a screenshot of it) but fails to mention that it doesn't work on Windows. I must admit I fail to understand quite a bit of why GIMP is designed the way it is.

There is indeed a pencil icon on Windows:




What I described is valid for Open, but not Save/Export which is a different dialog, and in which you cannot edit the path.

This isn't really Gimp's design, but the GTK2 library that Gimp uses and is a standard on Linux. The next Gimp version uses GTK3 and the file dialog is a bit different.