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gtk: I finished my GtkTreeView typeahead patch earlier this week and posted it to gtk-devel-list. I also backported it to gtk+-2.4.4 and built it into rawhide. It requires installing ‘–nodeps’ for fc2, but seems work nicely.
It makes using the filechooser a better experience and is good for lists in general. It could be a little bit better, though. I’m tempted to include a new signal for it that lets applications know when the entry was activated, so that selecting a directory would change it immediately instead of setting the cursor. Alternatively, we could expose the entry to applications, though I’m less happy with that approach. I could also special case it in the FileChooser and not worry about other applications. Either way, it’s much closer to the original vision of the FileChooser, and will hopefully make some of the grumbling about the lack of an entry go away.