On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Gavriel State wrote:
> I think that he means that Linux users will not expect to see 'C:\' in
the file
> dialogs for apps ported using WINE.
>
> Our tree has several mods that make C:\ look like /, and D:\ look like
~/. And
> in the file dialogs they have captions beside them like 'The System',
and 'My
> Home'.
> Lots of this code is build into the file dialogs in a clean way, but we
also
> have a
> hack that watches calls like DrawText and such like, looking for DOS
paths and
> displaying them as UNIX paths (dropping the drive letter and flipping
the
> direction
> of slashes). It's not perfect, but it's better than 'C:\'.
>
For ported apps that might be fine. I guess the app developer is in
effect the Wine Administrator, and can say what is C: and D:. Not
everybody is going to want to let a windose app get at /, or even ~/,
but maybe it would be a good option to substitute the names, as long as
we don't force "/" to really _be_ /, or "~/" ~/. I can't think of any
reason the slashes should go backwards. I think even for left-handed
people, \ doesn't belong in a pathname unless you are doing something
funky with it.
>
> -Gav
>
> Juergen Schmied wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a flag somewhere to turn off the emulated dos drive names
in the
> > > file dialogs?
> > How do you mean this? There is nothing emulated.
> >
> > juergen
> >
> > ---
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ... from sunny Berlin
The app's view of the filesystem is - well, not exactly emulated, -
administered? - it's fair to say the drive letters aren't.
>
> --
> Gavriel State
> Engineering Architect - Linux Development
> Corel Corp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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