Please retain state of Open > All Files / All Text Files
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gedit |
Fix Released
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Low
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gedit (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Okay, maybe I'm one of very few who actually uses gedit for coding, but here's my workflow problem:
1) I need to open another source file, so I Open...
2) gedit nicely displays the contents of the last directory I've open anything from, which often contains several dozen source files.
3) But only on very rare occasions am I interested in a ".py~" file, and I've never felt the need to open a ".pyc" file, so I select "All Text Files" instead of "All Files" so I can more quickly find the ".py" file I'm looking for.
4) 53 seconds later, I feel the need to open some other ".py" file, but to my constant annoyance, gedit has reverted to "All Files", so I must select "All Text Files" again.
5) Repeat.
I'm not much of a C hacker and am swamped with another project at the moment, so I wont be able fix this myself anytime soon. That being said, I know beggars can't be choosers, but here is my plea for how this should be implemented:
At the very least the All Files / Text Files state should persist during a given session, but please don't bother doing it this way if you do anything at all: save it permanently with gconf key. Persistence of state always makes an application easier to learn and quicker to use.
I also think that "All Text Files" should be the default. As gedit (or gtk or nautilus or whatever) obviously does something more intelligent than just check file extensions, I think that very seldom would gedit hide something that the user wished to open (for example, you can still open '/etc/network/
I'm not sure if this can be changed easily or is instead set in the gtk file chooser whatever widget, but please replace the ComboBox with two RadioButtons. It's silly to use a drop-down when there are only two options. It's better always to show the user the selected state and the alternate state.
Lastly, I think this phrasing is clearer (for the English anyway): "Text Files Only" and "All Files". Again, please make "Text Files Only" the default.
Thanks! Or maybe I'll have time to do it myself in the not so distant future. ;)
Changed in gedit: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in gedit: | |
status: | Confirmed → Rejected |
Changed in gedit: | |
status: | Rejected → Fix Released |
Changed in gedit: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
Hi, the software developers have a bug open about this here: http:// bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 329291
Seemingly it hasn't been worked on yet because there isn't an easy way to catch 100% of text files in the filter