[Usability] Thoughts about the file chooser

[Maurizio Colucci <seguso forever tin it>]

Hello,

I was wondering: have you thought about replacing the whole file dialog 
with a single "drag files here" widget, or some kind of file list where 
you can drag the files to?

This could make sense if your priority is to offer a minimal interface, 
with no duplication of functionality. And would solve the problem where 
the application asks for a file, but you already have the file visible 
in another file manager (be it nautilus or not).

If dragging is too difficult, Gnome could provide a "send to" 
functionality (e.g. right-click file, the context menu opens, select 
"send to window", a window list opens, select the file chooser window). 
I implemented something like that in http://onefinger.sf.net.

Just I thought that occurred to me :-)
Cheers,
Maurizio