Re: File Dialog

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> writes: 
> I don't think this is even worth considering. The GNOME 2.0 file
> selection dialog is likely to require so many kinds of changes to
> provide all the features that are available with various GNOME
> libraries, that is incredibly unlikely building on a Gtk-only widget
> will be a at all useful (no matter how much a priori thinking about
> what extensibility hooks might be needed has gone into it).
> 
> For example, one proposal on the table is to embed suitably
> scaled-down (functionally, not just visually) versions of the various
> Nautilus directory views via Bonobo.
> 

I disagree that it's pointless. If you are going to have Nautilus be
the file selector, then GNOME hooks are pointless, yes. If you just
want an in-process file selection widget, it should not be rocket
science to virtualize getting an icon for a file, tab completions, and
getting file listings. It should be pretty easy to figure that out.

This stuff is useful to have virtualized anyway, it allows people to
add their own directory filtering and name completion hacks.

Havoc