Submitted by T. A. McLeay on Thu, 2006-09-14 05:54.
Paste into a file Open dialog box for applications that don't support drag-and-drop.
You may well already know, but one consolation feature of Gnome/GTK's new file pickers is that you can drag-and-drop a file/folder into the window, and it switches to the containing folder. So even though you can't always directly use drag-and-drop saving sort of thing, you can easily switch to a folder without having to browse the whole tree.
(If you have any experience with Windows, this is completely different from what you might expect to happen — in Windows it tries to copy the file — but it's a lot more useful.)
Drag-and-drop saving in Gnome
Paste into a file Open dialog box for applications that don't support drag-and-drop.
You may well already know, but one consolation feature of Gnome/GTK's new file pickers is that you can drag-and-drop a file/folder into the window, and it switches to the containing folder. So even though you can't always directly use drag-and-drop saving sort of thing, you can easily switch to a folder without having to browse the whole tree.
(If you have any experience with Windows, this is completely different from what you might expect to happen — in Windows it tries to copy the file — but it's a lot more useful.)