Re: [Usability] File Chooser Dialog

[Soeren <stp kabelnettet dk>]

There shouldnt be any general purpose help in a specialized
widget such as a filedialog. But help specific to the function
of buttons etc is a must. This could easily be achieved with
hover triggered hints.

But speaking of optional - in my mind a gnome/gtk filedialog should
have multiple optional tabs for specialized file views, such as
"resent files", "new project file" (with icons that represent the type
of project file ie. PHP, HTML etc for web authoring software for 
instance) etc. These tabs should only be enabled by the software, not 
the user. 


On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 03:04, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:32, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > > Yay. I got tired of seeing all the mails about the GtkFileChooser.
> > > And, so, I am sending the mockup that I made.
> > > 
> > > http://www.gnome.org/~dobey/gtk-filesel-mockup.png
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > The 'Help' button would probably also be gone, since the help system is
> > > way above GTK+ (ugh).
> > 
> > Why not have the help button be optional (off by default, since there's
> > no reasonable default action), and provide a means for the application
> > to hook a callback function to it?  The help button could be useful for
> > explaining things like extra options your application puts in the file
> > dialog.
> > 
> > --
> > Shaun
> > 
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