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

[Luke Hutchison <lukeh byu net>]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:05, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> The right way to design a user interface is to write a functional
> specification [...]
> Discussions about the look of the user interface are completely out of
> place right now.  If you think the file chooser is missing an absolutely
> basic piece of functionality, say so --- this does not include things
> like "you should use a combo box rather than a list to display
> bookmarks".
> 
>   Federico

Thanks for the pointers, Federico.  This was not an attempt to change
the look of the File Chooser for GTK-2.4 at the last minute, it was just
an "out-there" suggestion for a radically different UI implementation of
the standard use-cases, as some possible future plug-in alternative to
the default.  I probably should have waited for the GTK-2.4 / GNOME 2.6
dust to settle before bringing it up at all.

The work you're doing on the File Chooser for GTK-2.4 is awesome, thanks
for working on it -- I am an appreciative end user, sorry for not
sounding like one.

-Luke.