Re: The gtk file selector once again

[Thomas Leonard <tal00r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:20:42AM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I realize that the issue of the GTK file selector has probably been
> done to death in previous discussions; nonetheless I'm foolhardy
> enought to want to throw in my two cents' worth.
> 
> I don't have a problem with the appearance of the file selector in gtk
> 2.0 -- I'm not looking for snazz in a file selector and the current
> one seems quite well designed.  My problem is with the question of
> completion versus globbing.
[...]
> Now the GUI selector.  It seems it would be nice to have some
> counterpart to both globbing and completion at the shell prompt.  It
> may be possible to have both, but first let's think: Which of these
> facilities should have higher priority?  (I leave aside for the moment
> the issue of what users will *expect* to find, based on experience
> with other GUI file selectors.)
[...]

Allin, rather than complicating the Gtk fileselector with all these
features, why not just find the file using your file manager (which,
presumably, already does globbing, tab-completion, favourites and anything
else you might want) and drag directly into the application?

Since you've probably got a quick way of firing up a file manager already,
the saving from not having to use File->Open... means it'll probably be
quicker too. And, the user gets the same interface they're already used
to.


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