Re: File dialogs: Filtering

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

thristian@atdot.org wrote:
> The default filter should be effectively "Any filetype I can
> understand", and if you want, you can narrow the selection by choosing
> a *specific* filetype, or widen it by choosing "All Files".

I agree. It makes sense to me at least :-)


> > A toggle to 'advanced' filtering may be useful, but the 'find'
> > button leading to gnome-find which could return the users'
> > selections would be more appropriate I think.
> 
> OK, a while ago on this list we hashed out a design for a little
> application we called "Ghost Lists". Conceptually, it was a GUI
> version of the concept of "multiple selection": a toplevel window
> containing a list of files and a couple of buttons for set operations,
> so you could take the union or compliment of a Ghost List and so
> forth. A "find" operation would return a Ghost List, and you could
> drag (by a proxy icon, I think) a Ghost List onto an app and have it
> work like a "multiple open".

Uh. I'm not sure I understand the concept fully, but isn't this very
much tied to drag-and-drop?


Christian



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