FWIW, I agree 100%. Every new developer moving from windows has run into this problem.
What are the chances of a new file selection dialog being adopted into the standard distructuion if somebody were to roll their own with: the Tree widget, so you have a tree view of the file system, with a bunch of shortcuts and a filter, and a Clist widget with all the files with modification times, protection status, etc. would be wonderous to have and all the widgets are there to make it already. I might be able to do something like that time permitting, but I'm not going to do it unless there is at least a reasonable chance of it being accepted. -Rich On Monday 23 September 2002 07:27 pm, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > 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? _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
