Issues regarding the nedit file dialogue

[Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3]

>> 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.
[...]
>> 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. 

> 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.

This indeed was successful!

Now if I just could also get some feedback by someone to the items 1-3
in my post.....

Ronald
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