Re: Daily eye candy.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se> writes:

> lör 2001-12-08 klockan 11.45 skrev Daniel Veillard:
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:46:26AM -0800, Chris Phelps wrote:
> > > http://glimmer.sf.net/gnome2/gnome-file-selector.png
> > > 
> > > This is the beginning of my GnomeFileSelector, because the GtkFileSel
> > > sucks. This is a widget that I've used in Glimmer for some time now, but
> > > only recently VFS'd. Today I ported it to GTK+ 2 and pretty much rewrote
> > > everything from scratch except the URI handling code...it uses
> > > GtkListStore and GtkTreeView to display the lists of course. Tomorrow I
> > > hope to hack together some support for the EShotcut bar, If it's not
> > > ported yet, I'll start with that and then hopefully get a working
> > > implementation going asap.
> > 
> >   Looks really nice !!!
> > However one of the most annoying problem I have with 1.4 file selector
> > is when trying (as an user) to use it to save a resource to some place. Galeon
> > uses it to prompt the user for the pace to save a downloaded resource, 
> > Unfortunately as soon as one change the directory the existing filename is lost.
> > This makes it very frustrating for this (specific) use.
> > IMHO this illustrate the difference between a File selector and a Path selector,
> > is this provided somewhere in the 1.4 or 2.0 platforms ?
> 
> 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?

Yes, this particular bug will be fixed (with a hack) for 1.2.11 and
2.0.

(The reason it happens is, as Havoc says, becuase the file selector is
just a UI for tab completion. So changing to another directory is 
internally like typing /some/other/directory/<tab>)

Regards,
                                        Owen