Re: overwrite files & filechooser

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:44 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:30:42 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:21 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:27:21 +0100, Andreas Hauber wrote:
> > > > is there a method to display a message like "do you really want to overwrite
> > > > the file: foo ?" in the filechooserdialog or does somebody know the best way
> > > > to do this.
> > > 
> > > This functionality does NOT belong to filechooser nor fileselector. When
> > > the fileselector dialog returns, simply check the name and ask the
> > > question using normal Dialog.
> > > 
> > > PS: For sake of user's sanity, please use FileSelector.
> > 
> > FileSelector is deprecated. If there's something that you don't like
> > about FileChooser then do some research and then file concise bugs.
> 
> Read the loooong list of bugs filed against FileChooser claiming it's
> completely unusable. It makes it virtualy impossible to type in path
> using keyboard (you can, but it pops a separate dialog, which does not
> do tab-completion)

You are not doing the research. See the changes in GTK+ 2.6.

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