Issues regarding the nedit file dialogue

[Tony Balinski]

Quoting Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3
<mn-pg-p-e-b-consultant-3.com at siemens.com>:

> 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
>
...
> 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...

Ronald,

KDE wants to use its own color schemes and sets up some pretty bad
correspondences between its own and NEdit's. Two ways around this:
see http://www.nedit.org/niki/index.php/X-Resources - towards the
end, there's a section called "KDE color schemes and NEdit resources"
which describes how to set up better KDE-to-NEdit color matching or
to drop KDE colors for non-KDE applications completely.

Try it out and tell us how you get on.

Tony