Re: Do FileChooser+gnome-vfs currently work?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 22/03/2004 5:20 PM, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> Il dom, 2004-03-21 alle 23:15, Jonathan Blandford ha scritto: 
>  
>
> > Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it> writes:
> >    
>
>  
>
> > You need to do "is_local" to be FALSE on the file chooser.
> >    
>
> Mhhh... first, it seem that the proper properties is "local_only" :-)
>
> Second, now my /opt/gnome/share/themes/Simple/gtk-2.0/gtkrc contains[1]
>        
>        GtkFileChooser::local_only = 0
>        GtkFileChooser::show_hidden = 1
>        GtkFileChooser::file_system_backend = "gnome-vfs"
>  
These properties are object properties as opposed to style properties.  
Putting them in your gtkrc file will have no effect.  An application has 
to explicitly state that it can support non-local files.  If it doesn't, 
then the file selector will only let the user select local files.

The reason that the default is local-only=True is that the failure mode 
is less severe.

If an app supports openning remote files but local-only=True, then the 
app still works (but some of its functionality is hidden).  If an app 
only supports local files but local-only=False then the user can select 
files to open that the app can't handle, which is much worse.


James.

--
Email: james daa com au
WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/