Re: GtkFileChooser extensions
- From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>
- To: alex beatniksoftware com
- Cc: Fernando Herrera <fherrera onirica com>, GTK+ development mailing list <gtk-devel-list gnome org>, trow ximian com, dashboard-hackers gnome org, GNOME Desktop <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: GtkFileChooser extensions
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:49:14 -0500
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 17:47 -0400, Alex Graveley wrote:
> - Searching for "pictures from naples" should show me photos and maybe
> their categories, not just the meaningless name my camera gave it.
A custom display would take care of that.
> - Searching for "joe email" should be able to show me attachments joe
> has sent me in email that I haven't saved anywhere yet. It may also
> display the title of the email it was sent in.
Hmmmm, unless you can get to the attachment via a URI, I think this is
outside the scope of the file chooser.
Oh, one thing that I didn't mention in the spec is how extensions can
know if the file chooser is showing only files or also URIs. I don't
think you can get that information right now.
The spec draft mentions exposing GtkFilePath to extensions, which makes
me very uncomfortable. GtkFilePaths only make sense in the context of a
particular implementation of GtkFileSystem. This in turn has methods to
convert to/from URIs and filenames, so perhaps extensions should just
see URIs instead of abstract GtkFilePaths.
> - Searching for "polymorphic type system" should be able to show me the
> pdf document I browsed online, but which either doesn't exist on the
> filesystem or has been automatically put in some temp directory.
Only if the file chooser is configured to show URIs.
Federico
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