Re: disable FileChooser elements?

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 17:12 -0400, Doug Vetter wrote:
> Owen Taylor wrote:
> > Because people were accessing elements of GtkFileSelection directly
> > and making assumptions about what they did and how they related,
> > we were stuck with a widget we couldn't change at all.
> >
> > With GtkFileChooser, we intentionally made it completely opaque with
> > customization only through the API. If you think you have a legitimate
> > use case that isn't handled by the current API, file a bug, and
> > hopefully we can add support in the next iteration.
> >
> > Regards,
> >                                     Owen
>
> I looked over the code a bit more and that's what I feared.  I'll be the 
> first to admit that people shouldn't grab "private" pointers willy 
> nilly, but this is a toolkit after all.  It should facilitiate 
> development -- not impede it.
>
> I can't be the only person who wants to customize the appearance and 
> features of the file open / save dialog.  I guess I'm faced with two 
> choices now -- keep the old GtkFileSelection that does what I want or 
> try to learn the internals of GTK in record time and create the 
> necessary hide/show methods for the appropriate widgets.  Something 
> tells me I'll be more successful doing the former, but if I have time 
> I'll try the latter.

Please do what Owen requested, and open a bug describing your use case,
if you think it is common enough to be supported by the file chooser.
Since you seem to be interested in restricting the users access to 
other parts of the file system, maybe the "lockdown" extension Federico
was talking about could be made to do what you want.

Matthias