Re: filechooser spec offline?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 05:38, Sven Neumann wrote:
> 
> is there a particular reason the original specification of the new
> filechooser widget isn't online any longer? People on the gimp-user
> list started to discuss the new dialog (gimp-2.1 is using it) and I'd
> like to point them to the document that explains the reason behind
> some of the decisions that people disagree with. This used to live at
> http://www.gnome.org/~seth/filechooser-spec but seems to have
> disappeared. Is this document online elsewhere?
> 

Apparently moved to http://www.gnome.org/~seth/designs/filechooser-spec/

> BTW, what is the best place to discuss the filechooser and how it
> could be improved further? It seems like right here should be a good
> place but I am not sure if Seth is following this list and I think
> that he should be involved.

It'd take over the list ;-) Really if you read all the archives on the
file dialog it's hard to imagine saying a lot of *new* things...

I'd suggest just filing bugzilla bugs on specific tweaks, or
usability gnome org, and copy Seth and Bryan.

You might also point out to people that the file chooser is
theoretically pluggable, and one alternate chooser (a Windows-alike one)
is even needed in the main GTK+ distribution.

The code sort of looks like it's hardcoded to the default chooser for
the moment, but it shouldn't be hard to fix...

Caveat, I'm pretty ignorant here, I'm sure someone will correct me.

Havoc