Re: File Dialog

[matthew <matthew mattshouse com>]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Mikael Hermansson wrote:

OK, lets do it then and not talk it to death.  I propose that we use
Derek's widget as a strting point.  Derek, do you mind the help?  If not
I'll take on the tab completion, Mikael you add the GList
multiselect.  Let's get a proto out this weekend.  The sooner it's stable
the better chance TimJ and Owen will approve.  Their looking to freeze.

Agreed?  If so let's get off the list.

Matthew



> I would gladly help development of this because as many already have said
> the old gtkfileselector really needs to be replaced...
> 
> Greats
> 
> Mikael H.
> 
> På Sat, 26 Aug 2000 02:11:45 skrev Havoc Pennington:
> > 
> > Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com> writes: 
> > > 	Can I take this to mean you _would_ consider a new FileSel widget
> > > for Gtk2, assuming a good one came along?
> > > 
> > 
> > Not up to me. I'm pretty sure GTK 2 won't get delayed to wait for
> > this; it is currently delayed waiting on GSignal and GtkTLView, more
> > or less. Once those are in things are going to start freezing up.
> >  
> > > 	I would like to have the "issues of hooks to enable the dialog to
> > > become GNOME-ified" clearly defined.  I want to make sure I do whatever's
> > > necessary with my widget.
> > >
> > 
> > Part of the work of writing any widget is figuring out what is
> > necessary. I haven't figured it out. But in general, a subclass of the
> > widget should be able to use gnome-vfs and gnome-mime.
> >  
> > > 	The FileSel is a bit tricky because it deals with things like what
> > > icons to use for different file types... and how to determine a file's
> > > type.  And drag'n'drop behaviour between the other filemanagers (Nautilus,
> > > GMC) and external applications.  I'm not sure how the Gtk+ FileSel should
> > > work, given that it will probably want to use CORBA in its Gnome
> > > incarnation.  Will simply making all the functions virtual suffice?  Any
> > > advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
> > > 
> > 
> > If I had time to figure that out, I would just write the widget. ;-)
> > 
> > Havoc
> > 
> > 
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