Re: file open dialog settings?

[jcupitt gmail com]

2008/9/22 Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav maslovski gmail com>:
> Let me ask directly: is there anyone who is working in this direction now?
> Should we form a kind of sponsoring commitee for such an individual? =)
> Half-joking, but having such big companies as Google or Canonical around
> that are willing to support free software this might certainly be helpful.

The file chooser is mostly the work of the wonderful Federico
Mena-Quintero. You can fiind snippets about it on his blog, for
example:

http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-02.html#gtkfilechooser-bug-week

http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2006-02.html#16

Asynchronous filling of the file chooser (close to your suggestion)
was added in gtk 2.10 by Kristian Rietveld and released in July 2006.
Though I think it's been turned off at some point since due to a
regression with the gnome-vfs backend. Or something like that. It's
supposed to all be working again now, I understand, and works with
completion as well.

I'm sure if you have a good idea for improving performance, Federico
would love to hear it.

John