Re: [Usability] [Yet Another] New File Chooser Design

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 00:46, Luke Hutchison wrote:

> Here is a proposed design for a File Chooser with a menu bar :o)

There are already about 30 designs for a GTK+ file chooser.  Creating
yet another one is not the way to write a file chooser.

The right way to design a user interface is to write a functional
specification, that is, a list of things that users will want to do with
that user interface.  In the case of the file chooser, it involves:

- For File/Open, it should allow selecting files.

- For File/Save, it should allow typing a