Re: Daily eye candy.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se> writes: 
> Yes, will this be "solved" in Gtk+ 2 (or GNOME 2?). Is there any reason
> why it behaves as it does, I mean, who wants it to whipe out the
> filename when changing directory?

The GTK filesel works entirely in terms of tab completion, 
so to change dir it changes the filename to "dirname/*" and tab
completes.

The widget is only useful if you treat it like a shell prompt and bang
tab a lot. You can even do wacky globs like foo/*/*. Of course this is
useless for saving an already-named file just as it is in the shell.

Yeah, it's a bunch of crack. Probable 2.2 project is to replace it -
if we could get a prototype of the replacement in GAL or behind the
libbonoboui IDL sometime in the next few months that'd be awesome, and
then move it when appropriate. (It should probably work in terms of a
"model" object that could be either gnome-vfs or the Windows
filesystem or the UNIX filesystem.)

If you want to have a long-ass thread, start discussing the UI for
this thing. ;-) I think for the 2.2-destined widget though it would be
good to have a fairly detailed UI team recommendation.

Here is the bug for tracking the feature:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29087

So attach info-you-dont-want-to-get-lost to the bug.

Havoc