Re: GNOME File Selector 0.1 released

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On 07 Aug 2001 19:24:53 -0400, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> Looks pretty sweet. How "real" is the mini-file manager it has? I ask,
> because one of the better features of Windows, IMHO, is that the file
> selector dialog is actually Explorer, and has all of its capabilities
> (right-click to rename, etc).

the goal for it is to be as functional as the listing widget in windows.
you can rename files in it, and it will be able to create folders and
delete files.

dnd with the listing widget will also happen.

as for copy/cut/paste of files, that will be a little bit more off.

> My comment could go two ways, I suppose:
> 
> 1) Should Nautilus be used in the file selector?

performance was too high a barrier when this was started.

> 2) Should the file selector be used in a File Manager?

i'll probably end up hacking a little demo thing which will do this, but
it won't be nearly as flexible/powerful as nautilus.

i mean, we have a not-so-bad file manager (2, actually) but we don't
have a good file sel dialog.

jacob
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