Re: more on gtkfilesel...

[Michael L Torrie <torriem cs byu edu>]

On our project to fix the filesel
(mailing list is at gtkfilesel-devel@lists.sourceforge.net), we're
thinking much the same things.  I must say, though, I disagree with the
icons, at least for the moment.  In the interest of simplicity, I think
we'll be sticking with plain text.  Icons have their place more in
gnome.  We're just making a functional, yet quick and dirty widget.  Also,
I think using an icon to specify mounts as you suggest is not
cross-platform compatible.  (Althought maybe the original widget didn't
work on windows that well either.)

I disagree about tab completion also.  In fact I've never found IE to be
that intuitive, at least when it comes to selecting files.  Maybe the good
old unix way is still best.  I dunno.  The way tab completion in gtk works
is really quite cool actually, although you'd have to leave the keyboard
to select on of the possibilities if tab gave you three possible
completions.  Lot's of possibilities.  The Gnome people should check them
all out and see what's best.  I'm thinking there might be a way to combine
the way ie does it with tab completion.

anyway, food for thought.
Michael




On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Antonio Campos wrote:

> Just some thoughts:
> 
> * The new gtkfilesel should be backwards-compatible with the old one,
> only with a new and more useful layout. That way, it can be included in
> Gtk+ 2.0. Posterior versions of Gtk+ 2.0 could change this
> backwards-compatibily issue (I even think that it would be a good thing
> that the gtkfilesel widget got out of the main gtk distribution some
> day, and every file selection was done through Gnome/Bonobo/Nautilus.
> You can allways have those widgets in GtkExtra, etc...)
> 
> * Please, remove the ./ and ../ directories in the directory listing.
> They are just confusing. Put some buttons instead.
> 
> * The mounted devices should be reflected some way in the directory
> listing through some kind of icon. For example, would it be much
> difficult to scan /etc/mtab or so when displaying the directory tree, so
> that, for example, the icon for /mnt/cdrom displays a little cdrom. I
> think this helps a lot.
> 
> * A list of mounted devices could be added to the gtk file selection
> widget. Just scan /etc/mtab or so, and put the devices in the list with
> their corresponding icon, so the user can click on this list to quickly
> select the device and go to the directory where the device is mounted.
> 
> * I prefer a IE list of matching filenames instead of the tab
> completetion. It's more intuitive for newbies.
> 
> * And of course, keep it simple...
> 
> Nice programming,...
> 
> 
> 
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