Re: File dialogs: Filtering

[thristian atdot org]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:54:26AM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> thristian@atdot.org wrote:
> > > 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?

Yes. A possible extension would to provide a method of storing these
search results in a file somewhere so that they can be navigated with
gnome-vfs or something.. or a method where you can get a folder
containg a folder for every list that's currently open on the screen.

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