Re: Advanced gtk_file_selection widget

[Michael Vanecek <mike mjv com>]

http://students.cs.byu.edu/~torriem/gtk/ and specifically
http://students.cs.byu.edu/~torriem/gtk/files/advanced_gtkfilesel-0.2-1.i386.rpm
(you need to log off and log back on after installing for it to work -
it just provides a PATH to it rather than the original widget which
remains intact, just unused) is a pretty cool file selection widget I
hope ends up in the base Gtk distro. I especially like being able to
choose the file mask - many of the directories I have are full of files
of different types and trying to pick out a particular type in the mess
can be a pain - with the new widget all I do is type the extension with
a wildcard and hit enter and all the files with that extension show up -
ie *.jpg - whether it ends up becoming part of the main distro is
anybodies guess - who decides that stuff anyway?

Mike

Lokesh Setia wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a unix/linux developer and a user since 5 years. I have always
> wondered while why the file selection widget in GTK is so primitive.
> People trying to migrate from windows have often complained about this
> very thing.  There is no option to set a filter (like *.txt).  And
> there are no icons either, only plain text.  However, there is one
> good feature, which is tab completion, but many new users don't know
> or care about it.
> 
> There are advanced file selecition widgets available elsewhere on the
> net, but unless they are part of GTK core distribution, it will only
> lead to inconsistent interfaces.  I recently installed a beta gtk-1.4,
> and was sad to see the same file selection widget in that too.
> 
> I know it might have been asked before, but I was not able to find
> anything related to this.  Can anyone tell me the rationale behind
> making this widget the way it is?
> 
> Regards,
> Lokesh.
> 
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