Re: First UI component needing replacement.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "colin z robertson" <c.z.robertson@ndirect.co.uk>


> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:45:34PM -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If the open dialog is oriented towards opening only one file then
> that's a flaw in the dialog rather than an indication that there need
> to be two dialogs. The Windows open dialog handles selecting multiple
> files in the same directory fairly gracefully. The Mozilla-style view
> expands that to work well with files from multiple directories.

Agreed whole-heartedly.  If the current visual metaphors don't work, we
should toss them and do something different.  I don't have a problem with
that.  Maybe there are too many people discussing Gnome UI that just want to
see Windows again.