The shortkeys for "Files" checkbox, and for filter" button, are identical (Alt-f), which makes this dialog unreliable.
Since "Folders" checkbox is toggled by "o" (=second character), and Alt-i is not used yet anyway, it would be coherent to toggle the "Files" checkbox by its second character, too, ie by Alt-i, Alt-f remaining unchanged for the "filter" button.
Little bug in Filter dialog (Alt-h)
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Re: Little bug in Filter dialog (Alt-h)
this dialog is complicated because the same inner dialog appears in find files and other dialogs. I suppose I could change the Filter shortcut but it is the default button so just pressing ENTER key activates it
Re: Little bug in Filter dialog (Alt-h)
I know that the Enter key activates the "Filter" button, but since I do all this by external scripting, I try to access buttons by their Alt-character shortkey, and it remains a bug, i.e. the problem with Alt-f for "Files" (!) is the tab order, i.e. only if you press Alt-f for "Files" early enough in your voyage thru this dialog, it toggles the "Files" on-off.
If you have problems with the other uses of this dialog, what about renaming the "Filter" button instead? Make it "OK" (which would be more "standard" anyway, and self-explanatory with the dialog title "Show items according to rule"), or then "OK (filter)" for it being more fool-proof.
In this case, "OK" should be "&OK", and "Folders" should become "Fo&lders" (instead of "F&olders"), and btw, "Cancel" can be triggered by Escape, but a specific shortkey would do no harm:
Then, you would need the Alt-l here ("Cance&l"), but the Folders toggle could easily become "Fol&ders" instead, the "D" standing for "directory" anyway, see the "D" as "folder" file attribute.
At the end of the day, Alt-d for "Folder"/Directory would not be so bad an idea, while freeing Alt-o for the "OK" button (coherence between various dialogs).
If you have problems with the other uses of this dialog, what about renaming the "Filter" button instead? Make it "OK" (which would be more "standard" anyway, and self-explanatory with the dialog title "Show items according to rule"), or then "OK (filter)" for it being more fool-proof.
In this case, "OK" should be "&OK", and "Folders" should become "Fo&lders" (instead of "F&olders"), and btw, "Cancel" can be triggered by Escape, but a specific shortkey would do no harm:
Then, you would need the Alt-l here ("Cance&l"), but the Folders toggle could easily become "Fol&ders" instead, the "D" standing for "directory" anyway, see the "D" as "folder" file attribute.
At the end of the day, Alt-d for "Folder"/Directory would not be so bad an idea, while freeing Alt-o for the "OK" button (coherence between various dialogs).