Re: Proposal for File-Selection Dialog

[Sam Vilain <sam hydro gen nz>]

"Ian Bicking" <bickiia@earlham.edu> writes:

> There's a couple ways of dealing with this: make the list strictly
> one-column.  Macs do this.  It's not unreasonable, but it makes navigating a
> large directory difficult.  Really, there shouldn't be any large
> directories, but that's not an option open to us.
> You can sort horizontally.  This is annoying.  Or you can do like Windows
> and scroll horizontally.  I think they made the right choice.

Or simply sort vertically across the whole directory.  Sure, column 2
will start with the files in the "middle" of the directory, but I
think that's ok.

I think due to the religious debate this is causing it should
definitely be configurable and theme switchable :-)
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