Re: GNOME user environment brainstorming

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On 01 Jun 2001 13:27:07 +1200, Luke Hutchison wrote:
> From: "James M. Cape" <jcape ignore-your tv>
>
> > I'd like to add "Recent Documents" to the list of special folders. It
> > should be a subdir of the Desktop which contains links to recently
> > opened documents. (gnome-vfs may be able to help us with this in the
> > future, perhaps through a gnome-vfsd -- which will also let us do all
> > sorts of cool things, such as monitor which apps have which files open,
> > and present the user with a single, integrated "these documents unsaved"
> > dialog when they logout, an advanced feature not present in any current
> > GUI AFAIK.)
> 
> The new Open dialog box (when it's done) should be able to make use of this
> too.  By the way does anyone know if someone is developing the Open dialog,
> or is it still just in the ideas stage?  Who did the new Open/Save dialog
> for Ximian GNOME 1.4?

i'm actively hacking a new file selector for gnome 2 (although currently
it using gnome 1.4).  it's in CVS modulename file-sel.  it's not all
that far yet, but it's getting there.  the UI is neither finalized nor
mostly working, but there are some screenshots at:

http://primates.ximian.com/~jacob/filesel/

please don't start a big thread about this here, though, since i get
too much mail as it is.

jacob
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