Re: GNOME::Selector

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On 01 Jun 2001 18:31:02 +0200, Martin Baulig wrote:
> 
> Just got a super-great idea how we can drop GNOME::DirectoryFilter and
> keep things extensible and general enough for all kinds of selector widgets.
> 
> Michael's idea with two sequences - for regexps and mime types - won't work
> for general selectors since it's too much tied to the VFS and files.

which uses for this are for non-files?  michael pointed out in an
earlier mail:

>         Now, on the positive side, I think Martin is trying to provide a
> generic interface for lots of types of selector - hence GNOME::Selector -
> and indeed this may be a worthy goal, however - I feel it is over
> complicated for what we need in a specificaly file-selection API, and that
> the genericicity is not useful - inasmuch that I cannot envisage other
> types of selector [ ie. non-file selectors ] using it. eg. the URI,
> directory-filter etc. have no meaning in a colour selector - indeed the
> code sharing here would be non-existant.

so which non-file uses do you envision for this interface?

jacob
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