Re: New Feature

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Luke Hutchison wrote:

> I have a very simple feature I would like to see added to GNOME which I
> believe will add great power to the interface, but I have been unable to
> track down someone interested in implementing it, and I don't have time
> to myself.  In fact I don't just believe that it will add great power to
> the UI, I know, because I have used this feature for a few years in
> Acorn RISC OS.  Once you've used it you'll wonder how you ever did
> without it.  Whom can I contact about at least building a prototype to
> see if it's something that the community wants?  The feature is as
> follows:
>
> Quite simply, a file icon is added to the Save As dialog box which may
> be dragged to
>     (a) a File Manager window, or
>     (b) another application.

I've always wanted the opposite, to be able to drag a directory from the
file manager to a file dialog and make the dialog go to that directory.
This always seemed such a natural thing for me, but your scheme is equally
powerfull.

/ Alex