Re: Proposal for File-Selection Dialog

[sml13 cornell edu]

Ok, I've taken some valium and I think now I have gotten over my 
astonishment that you used Win32 (or VB) do your initial mockup.  That's 
okay, I tell myself.  It's only a prototype.  So, in my sedated state, I 
now have some more thoughtful comments:

1.) THIS THING ROCKS!  It kicks arse!  It renders all other 
file-selection dialog boxes obsolete! 

[pops another vallium]

2.) Okay, but I don't know how intuitive that folder icon would be for a 
menu.  Hmmm...is there something more "descriptive" that would indicate 
that that pops up a menu of choices.

3.) I assume that your first image would be a horizontal-scrolling pane, 
a la Windows.  If it's good enough for Windows, it's good enough for us, 
I guess.  But: 

http://www.iarchitect.com/file95.htm

this guy seems to disagree.  I dunno.  I've read through a lot of his 
stuff, and I tend to think that maybe he has some sort of axe to grind 
with Win95 UI 
(maybe a Mac fanatic or something :-).  But his opinions on the file 
dialog issue are at least choate enough to merit consideration.  So you 
might want to browse this site a little bit for critiques/inspiration.

Great work overall, though.  If you need any help with a bona-fide GTK+ 
prototype (a REAL prototype :-), just say something and maybe I'll be 
able to help out.

shane

On Sat, 19 
Dec 1998, Shane Michael Lenagh wrote:

> WTF!  You used Win32 to do a GTK+ file-selection dialog prototype.  For 
> shame! :-)
> 
> Ten lashes with a wet noodle for you!
> 
> shane
> 
> On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Justin Ross wrote:
> 
> > I've been cooking up ideas for the file-selection dialog.  Actually, my 
> > scheme has come to include GMC now too.  Part of it is up, so please 
> > have a look at    
> > 
> >     http://www.olywa.net/opiskin/gnomeui/fileselection.html
> > 
> > I'll continue to revise it based on people's responses.  Thanks.
> > 
> > Justin
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