Re: File chooser bug week

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec suse cz>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

>I'm running a GtkFileChooser bug week this week:

> http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/GtkFileChooser_bug_week
> 
> Please don't tell me "we have some patches in FooDistro 3.14", instead
> file those patches in bugzilla.gnome.org, and mail me or go to
> irc.gnome.org #gtk+ or irc.freenode.net #opensuse-gnome.

Are you aware about several sets of patches created for small screen
devices? I am not sure, whether they can be upstreamed, but you should
consider existence of small screen devices and mouse-less devices (with
stylus or no pointing device).

OpenEmbedded Linux:
http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3634
http://pfalcon-oe.blogspot.com/2008/01/smallscreen-mod-for-gtkfilechooser.html

Poky Linux:
http://svn.o-hand.com/view/poky?rev=3408&view=rev
http://svn.o-hand.com/view/poky?rev=2596&view=rev

openembedded-devel thread:
http://projects.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2008-January/003940.html

Secondly, file chooser (and even HIG guidelines) hardwires fixed pixel
count spacing. It's ugly and bad practice:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/design-window.html#layout-window-size

Looking at the GtkFileChooser source code, it's full of such spacing.

Thread about that:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2008-January/msg00014.html

gtk-level proposals for fix:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-February/msg00009.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2008-January/msg00021.html


And also another usability issue:
File open dialog double/single click issue:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2008-January/msg00025.html

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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