Re: GNOME::Selector

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

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.

I really wonder if it makes sense to define a general selector interface. So what
kind of thing do you want to select?

> However, if we use just one sequence - let's call it "filter-patterns" - this
> can be a simple sequence<string> property in the property bag.
>
> And a filter pattern can be a string which is one of (exclamation mark at the
> start means drop the URI if the pattern matches, for instance for dot files)
>
>         mime-type:something
>         !mime-type:something
>         regexp:something
>         !regexp:something
>         glob:something
>         !glob:something
>
> Then it's up to the component to override the default "check_uri" and/or
> "scan_directory" signal handlers to provide a custom filter.

sounds reasonable.

- Dietmar