Hi Hugh, On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 11:19 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I have started to use the file manager (GNOME Files, a Nautilus descendent) in the last couple of years. I've recently incorporated its search capability into my workflow and find it more convenient than locate(1) or especially find(1).
Have you come across the file chooser behaviour where the search field takes the focus instead of the filename field? Example: in Firefox, I want to save a series of article pages that were uploaded as jpegs, but I want to rename them to page numbers instead of 40+ random-digit-filenames. If I click on the previous saved page, its name appears in the filename field with the digit (not the dot or the jpg extension) highlighted. If I type the next digit in the sequence, I'd like it to replace what's highlighted so I can press enter or click Save. Instead the new digit appears in a new search field. To put the focus where I want, I have to drag the mouse over the highlighted digit (even switching focus with Tab or ESC would be better). I asked about this and was told it's shared GTK code between the file chooser and file manager, and it's expected behaviour. It is or is like GTK issue #2638. Mike