Re: [Usability] File Chooser Dialog

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Soeren wrote:

> 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",

I hate those files, the make me angry, they fill me with resentment!

Oh, wait you meant recent files.  The Recent Files menu covers this
adequately, however making sure the file dialog remembers folder(s) that
you have recently saved to is a differnt question entirely one which will
need to be considered (although the responsibility for doing that right is
probably the application developers problem rather than the file dialog
widget).

> "new project file" (with icons that represent the type

New File, New File from Template, this is a whole different issue from
Opening and Saving a file, I am sure it is beyond the scope of what is
being discussed.

- Alan H.