GNOME "Save as" dialog - defective by design

[Tomasz Sterna <tomek xiaoka com>]

Dnia 27-03-2007, wto o godzinie 13:15 +0200, Murray Cumming napisał(a):
> I can do this in nautilus using .hidden file in 
> > /, but I don't know how to do this in "Save as" dialog.
> Unfortunately, I was wrong about this. The GtkFileChooser does not yet
> use .hidden files. There is an open bug about this, with the
> beginnings
> of a patch:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314280 

This is a design problem.

There should be no such thing as "Save as..." dialog.

Users expect all the file manager functionality from the dialog, so
effectively the whole Nautilus gets recoded as a "Save as..." dialog,
doubling the effort, bugs, fixes etc.

We have it all coded in Nautilus, so why cannot we just use it?
There should be a "save as" mode in Nautilus. When the GTK+ dialog is
called, it should check if there is Nautilus present (it does that
already, to show the mime icons AFAIR) and call it to open a window in
"save as" mode and get the save path from there.
If not - show the old plain GTK+ dialog without all the fancy stuff.


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Tomasz Sterna
Xiaoka Grp.  http://www.xiaoka.com/