Issues regarding the nedit file dialogue

[Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3]

I'm using nedit under Linux/KDE. There are a few issues about the
File/Open
dialogue which I would like to point out and ask for other opinions,
because
this dialogue seems to have a surprising amount of flaws.

First have a look at the screenshot 

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3333/neditfiledialoguefy8.jpg

showing the dialogue window which I get when selecting File/Open. The
directory
part is so narrow that nearly none of the directories can be read. First
thing
I have to do is to manually resize the dialogue to a reasonable size - I
have
to do this *every* time I'm opening a file.

I understand that initially, such a dialogue box must have some
predifined size
and the programmer can't anticipate which size will suit the user. But
then, there
should be a possibility to somehow make the size of the file dialogue be
a user
preference. Most convenient would be if nedit would simply remember the
size
from the previous invocation.

Second, I am missing the ".." entry in the list of directories, which
makes
it cumbersome to navigate up one directory level.

Third, when selecting a directory or file by double-click (instead of,
say, 
single click plus click on the respective button), I found that nedit
does
not respect the double click settings of KDE. For example, I'm a slow
double-clicker, so I have set KDE to accept as double click when the
two clicks are as far as 900 ms apart. With nedit, you need to
doubleclick
very rapidly (in the filedialogue), or it would not work.

Finally, when I (single-) click on a filename, it is not highlighted.
This
visual feedback would be helpful in order to open a file. Right now,
opening
a file means a lot of guessing: I open the file dialogue, point the
mouse
to some filename, click on it (no visual feedback), then click on OK,
and
then *hope* that the right file will be opened. Sometimes the mouse
pointer
was just a little bit on above the filename so that another file is
chosen
instead. Impossible to tell without visual feedback. Actually, I have
never
seen before a dialogue box where clicking on a selection would *not*
show 
which entry has been selected...

Regards,

Ronald
-- 
Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431)
mailto:mn-pg-p-e-b-consultant-3.com at siemens.com


-- 
Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431)
mailto:mn-pg-p-e-b-consultant-3.com at siemens.com