Re: File Dialog

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:50:18PM +0000 +++
Bart Kuik e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> The file-dialog is one of the most crappy things of gtk+,

Yes.

> 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.

Miguel de Icaza has, a long time ago, checked a module into CVS (I
don't recall the name) with a bonobo-based clone of the Windows file
requester. I don't know what became of the project.

I sincerely hope that nobody intends to incorporate a clone of that
monstruous dialog into GNOME and that Miguel's tentative was rather
planned as a base for further innovation. For one, the Windows file
requester scrolls sidewards, which is illogical, uncomfortable and
horribly inefficient w/r/t screen real estate.

I seem to remember that the KDE file dialogs have repeated Microsoft's
error and are, in effect, sidewards-scrolling file manager components.
We should not repeat other people's errors.

mawa
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