The file selection widget class is missing some very important features common to almost every other major gui toolkit.
Many people have tried to add features to it but they are all mising one feature or another. Is there any plans for an edit of this before Gnome goes to user release? My boss goes crazy everytime he has to attach a file from a common network share he has to use for some of his reports without list view to sort the files by size, date, or type he sometimes has a hard time hunting for what he wants. The file open and save dialogs are pretty spartan. I have seen people mention this feature or that feature that was missing and I saw one request in bugzilla for a filter. However, I have not seen a laundry list so here it is and should I go bugzilla on this or is it a dup of a bug already entered? 1. There are no shortcuts by default to the home, desktop, documents and other folders like the Ximian edits. 2. There is no filter like the one I have seen in the gtk file selection edit I saw once. This is the most implemented addition I have seen in the file_selection alternatives. 3. There is no icons view. Seeing the icons especially if it either ties into nautilus for icon hint or used gnome default style icons would make picking out files from a list easier. Anjuta implements this pretty well. 4. There is no list view. My boss is correct that these gtk/gnomey (yes, he says it that way "g-nomey") apps need a way to sort the files in the list by name, date, size and type. This is THE MOST important request. Glimmer has this but only lists by name, size and file attributes which is limited. You need at least a Date Modified column and file type is more useful than attributes IMO. This is not only the kind of thing that drives a potential linux convert nuts but a developer already hostile to moving to linux (there are some) will have a field day on this complaining about the primitive nature of the interface. I have already gone through this with a developer in my boss's office as I explained to my boss that the file selection box did not work the way he wanted it to. This is a widget class that every user hits every day and it always stinks ever since Gnome 1.2. It seems like I have gotten use to it because I have been a Gnome user for so long and it took a true end user for me to recognize I needed to send this email. Is there anyway it will be fixed before the Gnome 2.2 or whatever release that will be termed a user's release? -- Johnathan Bailes At midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Go out and round up everyone That knows more than they do. --Bob Dylan _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
