Re: [Usability] File Chooser Dialog

[Soeren <stp kabelnettet dk>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 22:34, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Il ven, 2003-09-19 alle 16:03, Soeren ha scritto:
> > 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. 
> 
> These shouldn't be in the file chooser dialog. Recent files is already
> in most applications, as it should be, in at least one or more menus.
> And "new project" has absolutely nothing to do with the selection of a
> file.

Yes it has. To get the idea look for instance at MS visual dev. tools,
or some of the bigger macosx apps. Simple apps probably dont need them
that why i said optional.


>  Also, the only place where this makes any real sense is a
> DTP-style app, where you need to choose document size/layout. Otherwise,
> the different types of documents should probably have different types of
> editors for them. If you're looking for something more like what Windows
> has in terms of the "New Document ->" context submenu, GMC had this, and
> it would probably be trivial to add to Nautilus and/or the panel.
> 
> -- dobey
> 
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