Re: Filenames, escaping, and GtkFileSystem

["J. Ali Harlow" <ali juiblex co uk>]

On 2004.03.24 21:55 Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> There are a few things we can do:
>
> 1. Specify that GtkFileSystem::make_path() should fail if the filename
> has path components.  In the context of GtkFileChooser, this would
> eventually bring up an error message box, very similar to the one
> Nautilus uses when you rename a file and try to put a slash in the name.
>
> 2. Specify that GtkFileSystem::make_path() must escape the filename,
> thus allowing any characters to appear in it, *and* then unescaping
> filenames when reading them from the file system.  This would make it
> possible to have file names like "Report from the engineering/marketing
> teams" above.  If we do this, we should modify Nautilus as well.

Microsoft was rightly criticised for encouraging people to put spaces in
their filenames. Let's not make the same mistake. '/' is a seperator.
Let people find their own workarounds if they feel the need to have
something slash like in their filenames.

Cheers,

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J. Ali Harlow
ali juiblex co uk