Hi Patrick (and all),
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>I have been playing with the file selection and component selection
>dialogs (see below for download instructions).
>
>The code of the former has been cleaned-up a bit. The latter has been
>rewritten for GTK 2.x: GtkTreeView instead of GtkCList, new object for
>complete dialog... These two dialogs also have working preview.
I finally had a chance to play with your dialogs. Neat.
I like the cleaned up component selection dialog box. Feel free to
commit it as long as you keep the old one around for gtk+ 2.2.x users.
The file selection changes are a little tricker. Carlos has
already implemented related changes in CVS and I have some hacks to get
the preview working. However, I'm not really happy with my changes and
I like the way your dialog box is implemented (my preview implementation
is such a hack). Carlos, what do you think? I really want to make
sure we aren't stepping over ourselves here and that everybody ends up
in agreement.
Oh yeah, the old component selection dialog should work for users
who are using gtk+ 2.2.x. I'm sorry for injecting such pain into the
development and I'm willing to be a little flexible without annoyiung off
too many users.
>I have a few ideas for restructuring the component selection dialog:
>
> - joining the two lists for directories and components into a single
> model and a single tree.
I'm not sure what that would look like and more importantly,
will it make the whole user experience better? I'm not against or for
this until I understand the gains.
>
> - when doing a search, the tree should only display directories
> where there are components that match the criteria and only
> display these components (not other).
This reasonable as long as there is a way to get back to the
unfiltered list.
> - moving the action (reference/embed/include) to a contextual
> menu when placing component.
How would this work? Would a user have to pick the type everytime
they place the component?
-Ales
