Your message with subj: Unable to dive into subdirectories using keyboard in file open -dialog

Thanks for the report, I fixed that for KDE3.

Cheers
Carsten

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Subject: Unable to dive into subdirectories using keyboard in file open -dialog
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Package:           kdelibs
Version:           tuntematon (using KDE 2.2.1 -0.rh71.1.cups)
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Red Hat Linux 7.1
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.2-2
OS/Compiler notes: 

Preferring keyboard navigation to the mouse I've stumbled upon an annoying feature of the standard file open dialog. While I can easily ascent to the parent directory by pressing Alt-Up Arrow (great shortcut!), there doesn't seem to be any way to descent into a listed subdirectory, apart from typing it manually to the location line. Intuitively pressing Enter only results in passing the highlighted _directory_ back as the opened file to the application, which is quite unexpected. The same behaviour is found in practically every KDE app I've tried.

I've no clue to whether this shortcoming is the result of deep architectural issues, such as handling all files and directories as mime types, or just a plain and simple bug, but I'm nevertheless sure many people would love to see this grain of annoyance go away.

Thanks for your time and keep up the _outstanding_ work!



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