Re: [Hampshire] Gnome save / open dialogue

Stuart Sears wrote:
> Charlie de Courcy wrote:
>
>> A little piddly one, but you all seem quite active today :)
>> Does anyone know how you change the default gnome save / open dialogue?
>> Having to resize it every single time to view more that two folders /
>> files is infuriating!
>>
>
> doesn't appear that way in Fedora 7. <grin>
>
>
>> I expected there to be something in ~/.gnome or ~./config but that
>> doesn't appear to be the case!
>>
>
> it will be neck deep in the hideosity that is gconf, no doubt. Or a bug
> (as Alan pointed out)
>
> oh you can complain, but you'll probably just be told that you're not
> their "target audience".
>
> :)
>
> Says /me, who works in a company full of GNOME developers and has been
> told this first-hand. More than once.
>
> Stuart
>
I did find a post that claimed you could insert the following into
~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser

<minimum_width value="1000"/>
<minimum_height value="700"/>
<open_browse_expander value="false"/>

However it seems to work momentarily before getting overwritten.

*mulls a switch to KDE*