Re: new file selector dialog?

[Philip Van Hoof <freax pandora be>]

On 2002.03.08 07:12 Naba Kumar wrote:

> I don't know if you people will like it, but anjuta has an extremely
> good file-selector widget. It has all the features of gtkfileselector
> plus many more. I summarize the features below:
>
> 1) Clean, elegant and decent look.
> 2) Basic file manipulation, such  delete, rename, new folder etc.
> 3) Tab auto-completion just like gtk-fileselection.

I'd then recommend testing the auto-completion very well..
I don't know how stable/correct this is :-\ (I made it in a few 
days/hours)

> 4) Histroy browsing, like back, forward, up, home.
> 5) File type filter for various file extentions. This is something we
>    have been missing in gtkfileselection for ages.

And it has a nice GList API for filling the list of possible filetypes 
:). Which is, in my opinion, very importand if it will be used in
for example GNOME 2.0...


> 6) Show/hide hidden files.
> 7) Single and Multiple selection mode.

8) Create new directory-button :)


> Screenshot: http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/naba/fileselector.jpg

> Things need to be done if used for gtk+:

Very importand lines to port (in the filecompletion code) :
prefix = g_strdup(g_basename(full_prefix));
/* g_path_get_basename() in GNOME 2.0 */
path = g_dirname(full_path);
/* g_path_get_dirname() in GNOME 2.0 */

> 1) It was basically designed for gnome, but the widgets used are basic
> gtkwidgets. so, there should not be much problem in cleaning up the
> code for gtk+ only. In fact, we are ready to do that.

> 2) API wrappings to provide backward compatibility to the old gtk
> fileselector.

> People wishing to try it out can get it from gnome cvs at:
> /cvs/gnome/anjuta/widgets/

.. the files gnomefilelist.c and gnomefilelist.h


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