Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek etf cuni cz>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:27:16PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Petr Tomasek <tomasek etf cuni cz> writes:
> 
> >> If you started to use the bookmarks feature, it is likely that you
> >> will not need to use the folders list for about 95% of your file
> >> dialog usage. That is my experience at least.
> >
> > I see big problem here. There should be per application bookmarks.
> > I just tend to save my pictures to other places, than I do with
> > my documents, etc.
> 
> There are application specific bookmarks in the GTK+ API. I just don't
> know many apps that use them. GIMP for example uses them in some places.

Humm... this seems a wrong approach to me. The user should decide,
whether particular bookmark is meant for one application only or globaly,
not the application... :-o

Petr Tomasek

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