Re: [Usability] Three dialog problems

[Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 19:51 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:56:20AM -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> [snip]
> > I don't know a perfect solution to this, but one option could be to
> > hide the disabled select list for "save in folder," shrink or remove
> > the character coding select list, shrink the "add/remove" buttons
> > (which I'm not sure what they do, so are they necessary?) and do some
> > re-arranging of the "all files"  select list.
> 
> [snip]
>
> The Add/Remove buttons are for Bookmarks (Places). Select a folder 
> in the file list, hit Add and you have a new entry. I added all 
> my bookmarks through file dialogs, as it is when using them, I 
> noticed the palces I need frequently. One could argue adding/removing 
> could be done with drag and drop and/or context menus. There's a 
> discoverability problem, but it looks like that's the case with the  
> buttons, too, strange as it might seem.

You -can- drag and drop folders from the list to the bookmarks list.

The good thing about the buttons is that the user can hover the pointer
on them and get tooltips.

Also, the reason why Matthew is seeing dot files in the file list is
because he, at some point in the past, told the dialog to show them to
him. The context menu you get on the folder list (gotten by right
clicking or the standard keybindings, the Menu key or Shift+F10) has a
check menu item that toggles their display.


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