Re: [gnome-love] New feature

[Matthew Walton <mxw00u Cs Nott AC UK>]

Ross Burton wrote:

> On 25 May 2001 09:03:22 +1200, Luke Hutchison wrote:
>
> > Quite simply, a file icon is added to the Save As dialog box which may
> > be dragged to
> >    (a) a File Manager window, or
> >    (b) another application.
>
> Hmmm.  Personally, I can see the benefit of a), but b) just strikes me
> as wrong. Save As does just that - it saves the document to a file.
> "Saving" to another program should (IMHO) involve cut/copy/paste or
> Bonobo-esque embedding, which removed the need for b) in the first
> place.
I also see a) as a great advantage, but not necessarily b), although I 
would have no objection to it being there - I wouldn't have to use it! 
However, adding a feature like this seems to be a good opportunity to 
improve the Save As dialog, considering GNOME apps are still using the 
standard and rather bad Gtk+ one - so either Gtk+ needs a better one, or 
Gnome needs to provide its own. The latter would require code changes, 
but then the former likely would as well.

Although with any luck there's a good file selector in Gtk+ 2.0 - or 
there will be. Anyone know if they're doing this. I hate to say it, but 
look at the save and open dialogs in KDE...