Re: [Usability] RFP: File chooser user interface

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Michele Campeotto wrote:

> > > > Any kind of arbitrary widget, hmm?  What is the use case of this besides
> > > > a read only checkbox?  If there's just a few such things that we except
> > >
> > >   File encoding (gedit), file format (gimp)
> >
> > File format is also already part of the design (format filters - I'm
> > ASSuming those will be part of saving, as well), so that's moot in this
>
>   I meant to include there also the settings some formats may have, such
> as compression level, for example or format version (think about office
> documents: Word 2.0, 2000, XP, StarOffice 5.x vs 6).

I really think this is best done by an options button to an advanced
settings / export prefences dialog on the basis that this will be
something that users wont need to change every time but still might want
easy access to and take a small detour to the export prefernces as part of
the workflow of the task.

The simple setting of Document Compressed or Document Not Compressed could
and probably should be decided by having two types in the file type list.

- Alan H.