Re: First UI component needing replacement.

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

colin z robertson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:45:34PM -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> > colin z robertson wrote:
> > > I do it all the time. The last command I entered at the command line
> > > was "xmms win/music/full_tunes/*.mp3 &". I do the same with The Gimp
> > > and NEdit as well, even closing The Gimp and running it again just to
> > > open another set of files. A file open dialog must support selecting
> > > multiple files.
> >
> > Yes, but I would not have the select single file dialog and the select
> > multiple file dialog work in the same way.  The select single file dialog is
> > very much oriented towards one file, as is.
> 
> No, I don't like this. Does it not imply having seperate "open one"
> and "open multiple" commands? That's very ugly. Since opening multiple
> files is such a common occurence and opening a single file should be
> possible with a multiple file opener I say keep them together.

I was under the impression that the discussion about multiple open
dialogs was about multiple open dialog components that the programmer
could choose from, not that there had to be multiple types of open
dialogs for the user to choose from in the final app.

The latter would of course be very bad from a usability standpoint, as
it isn't needed (the programmer should know if he wants his app to be
able to open multiple files or not, and "open multiple files" dialog
should of course be able to open a single file just like the "open
single file" dialog), and secondly, multiple open dialogs to choose from
would just confuse the user (look at Photoshop with its "Open", "Open
As", "Save", "Save As" dialogs. Have you ever wondered what "Open As"
does?).


Christian



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