Re: File Dialog

[Bart Kuik <kuik rendo dekooi nl>]

On 24 Mar 2001 07:10:35 +1200, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> HI, I had an idea about the file dialog today, how about having a recent
> directory list,perhapse for the individual programme, but maybe more
> useful as a users recent directory list.
> 
> I thought of this when useing 2 progs to access files in the same
> directory, it's just a minor thing, but could be useful.
> 
> 

The file-dialog is one of the most crappy things of gtk+, and in my
opinion it would be very bad to live on with the old one until the
release of gtk+ 2.0. I really miss some buttons like 'desktop', 'home',
'back', 'forward', and so on. Only thing that works great is
filename-completion with <tab>. But indeed, a recent files menu would be
very useful. 
A standard file-dialog must be there before the large apps (Gimp,
Nautilus, Galeon, Abi, Evolution, Gnumeric....) all make their own with
extra functionality like previews and buttons. Interface-consistency
between apps is one of the most important things for the average user.

Bart