Re: notes from file selector talk

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 23:49, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 20:21, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 01:24, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > > On 19Jul2002 05:13PM (-0400), Luis Villa wrote:
> > > > 		*OS/X one is only one substantially different from Windows filesel
> > > 
> > > I can't recommend the current OS/X multi-column file selector. I think
> > > the Windows XP one is slightly better, but the classic Mac OS ones
> > > seems better still to me.
> > 
> > What about the save dialog. I like the idea to have only an inputfield
> > for the name and the favorite folder selection button at first and
> > provide a "real" folder selection with an extra button. I neved used
> > that though, does it work? 
> 
> This works really well and I think everyone at the workshop agreed that
> it was great, but it would require a working most-recent-directory
> thing, which we don't have yet :/

We probably should get it. It would be easy to add it to libgnome or
gnome-vfs, the trick would be getting people to use it...

-Seth