Re: [Usability] Pathbuttons-Field

Thorsten Wilms wrote:
With the file dialog issues coming up again and again, I suddenly
had this idea to combine a textfield with path-buttons:

http://xs67.xs.to/pics/06066/text-path_a_b.png

The file list below it should be filtered for the string as it's entered, or browser style autocompletion could be shown attached below the field.

Entering / after the name of an existing dir would turn that part of the path into a button. "../" (maybe even "cd ../") could also work.

Wildcards ... not discoverable, but no stumbling block and a blessing to those who do work on the console sometimes.

Backspace would work like on characters, going one level up here.

A / as first character entered might be a good way to allow input of full pathes.

The upper version are just slightly narrower buttons in a slightly higher field. The lower version should remind of the / path seperator.

I would like feedback and suggestions on possible next steps.
Very interesting, I like the idea. Concerning further steps, I'd really appreciate if such a field had an autocompletion (with a list of possible choices) in some form; I miss it very much in a current address entry. Of the two versions presented, I prefer the upper one.

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Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov
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