Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-19 Thread Christian Eddie Dost
Maybe it would be a good idea to fix glib to return the file type together with the directory name in a function g_read_dir(dir)? The info you need is all there and discarded inside glib... Just a thought. Eddie Morten Welinder wrote: and confusing gradual display of network locations (the

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-17 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 22:28 +0200, Jernej Simončič wrote: For the values of nicer that match much slower, worse autocomplete behaviour than the native dialog, less useful Places list and confusing gradual display of network locations (the first time I tried opening something from my

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-17 Thread Morten Welinder
and confusing gradual display of network locations (the first time I tried opening something from my fileserver I thought some of my directories went missing I think this could actually be improved fairly easily for all platforms if something (the chooser or backend, not sure) was more careful

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-17 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:04:47 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote: From the name of entries, it should be possible to come up with a fairly good guess of what to stat first. We want directories before files and things alphabetically within those groups, except that dot files should be last if

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-16 Thread Christian Dywan
Am Fri, 15 May 2009 22:28:01 +0200 schrieb Jernej Simončič jernej.listso...@ena.si: On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:33:12 -0400 (EDT), Allin Cottrell wrote: IMO this is now pretty much of a non-issue, since the current GTK file selection dialog is sufficiently like Windows (but nicer!). For the

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Cody Russell
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:46 -0400, David Cantin wrote: is there a plan or any activities regarding using the native file chooser on the Windows platform ? Like the print dialog does. My feeling is that for such dialogs we should perhaps implement a dialog that looks like the native one

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Cody Russell brats...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:46 -0400, David Cantin wrote: is there a plan or any activities regarding using the native file chooser on the Windows platform ? Like the print dialog does. My feeling is that for such dialogs we

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread David Cantin
I don't known about this, but from an usability point of view, using native dialog should help applications users because they can use skills they have learned while they were using others applications.. Those details are always sensibles when using a foreign gui toolkit. I will look into what

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Cody Russell
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:51 -0400, David Cantin wrote: I don't known about this, but from an usability point of view, using native dialog should help applications users because they can use skills they have learned while they were using others applications.. Those details are always

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Cody Russell wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:46 -0400, David Cantin wrote: is there a plan or any activities regarding using the native file chooser on the Windows platform ? Like the print dialog does. My feeling is that for such dialogs we should perhaps implement a

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:33:12 -0400 (EDT), Allin Cottrell wrote: IMO this is now pretty much of a non-issue, since the current GTK file selection dialog is sufficiently like Windows (but nicer!). For the values of nicer that match much slower, worse autocomplete behaviour than the native

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
Cody Russell wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:51 -0400, David Cantin wrote: I don't known about this, but from an usability point of view, using native dialog should help applications users because they can use skills they have learned while they were using others applications.. Those details

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:29:01 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: (Does the chooser look the same on all versions of Windows if you ignore theming? Win2k? WinXP? Vista? Windows 7?) Vista introduced new open/save dialog boxes, and changed minor details in the classic dialogs as well (only

Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-14 Thread David Cantin
Hi all, is there a plan or any activities regarding using the native file chooser on the Windows platform ? Like the print dialog does. There is already an opened bug about this : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319312 Regards, David ___

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-14 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:46 -0400, David Cantin wrote: Hi all, is there a plan or any activities regarding using the native file chooser on the Windows platform ? Like the print dialog does. There is already an opened bug about this : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319312 I

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
David Cantin wrote: Hi all, is there a plan or any activities regarding using the native file chooser on the Windows platform ? Like the print dialog does. There is already an opened bug about this : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319312 If you want to do it yourself, I've found