Re: First UI component needing replacement.

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

I've brought up that exact same 'special case' before too.

Let's see -- checking the status of or installing RPM files (that _would_
use the common dialog, right?), .c file editing, html file editing, etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Griffiths" <Dylan_G@bigfoot.com>


> Christian Rose wrote:
> > > I cannot think of many (any?) situations in recent memory where I've
had to
> > > open multiple files.  If I have, I think I would just open a file
manager,
> > > highlight the files, and hit enter and watch *it* do all the opening
work.
> >
> > Consider I have downloaded lots of desktop pictures, and want to browse
> > them in ee. Repeating the "open file" task for every picture is not
> > something you want to do 15 times in a row.
>
> I think that'd be a special case.  Obviously a program designed to work
with
> pictures would not use a filename oriented common file dialog, because it
is
> the special case of a graphical data manipulation program.