Re: FileChooserDialog and FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SAVE

[John Spray <jcs116 york ac uk>]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 13:40 +0100, danny van elsen wrote:
> ok, then I'll
> - expand the dialog to show the bottom part
> - test for the selected filter
> - and in the code add the appropriate extension
Hmm, it's more common to have a whole separate "File Format" combobox.

Using the filters in the save browser is really rather a fringe use-case
anyhow: finding files of the same type to save over.  In general, the
user is only interested in navigating to a directory and then typing
their new filename.

If you rely on the filter combo, then you rely on expanding the save
dialog, which diminishes its elegance somewhat.

John