On 9 April 2010 02:20, Søren Hauberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm, "multiple on steroids" sounds like a pretty good name to me :-) > You could also call it something like "repeated selection". > > I must say that I am not convinced this sort of behaviour should be part > of the default API (no other part of my GNOME desktop behaves this way, > so I think the user experience would be somewhat surprising). That being > said, I am not against it either and if it would help you, then go ahead > and add support for this.
As far as I am aware, I haven't ever seen anything behaving like this. But I don't think it's because there's a better way to do it, it's because simply doesn't exist. I guess the more similar thing I've seen is a window with two panels, one navigation to select the files, and another panel like a box where the files can be dragged. But zenity can't do it. It's up to whoever writes the program using this option, to make it clear to the user how it behaves. Maybe showing a window before informing. An alternative could be that this 'repeated selection' option, had a value that would be the window title the second times it appears but I don't think people read the title of the windows anyway. Another one, is this is my favorite, a list dialog could be shown at the same time of the select files that would show which files had already been selected. Or I could just tell the zenity developers that it's a nice feature. Also, you think duplicated filepaths should be removed from the function output? > P.S. I guess we should make a release of this package when you are done > making your changes. Do let me know if/when you would like me to make a > release or if you would like to do it yourself. I agree. It's probably better if you do it tough, I'm afraid I may mess something up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
