Re: GtkFileChooser API work

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 17:26, Mark Roach wrote:

> Sorry, I know you asked about those particular points, but I had a quick
> question that I was hoping you could answer. Mount points are a useful
> tool in the filesystem, and within nautilus it is great to be able to
> make mount-point-like items by creating a "link" (Launcher? not sure of
> the right term) to a gnome-vfs location which, within nautilus, "acts"
> just like a directory.
> 
> Will it be possible for the file selector to treat these links the same
> way, possibly putting them in the directory column instead of with the
> files? I imagine that could be tricky, since the file selector would
> have to read at least a portion of each file since links don't seem to
> use any particular file extension, (but you would know more about that
> than I) but I think it would be a very useful feature and make nautilus'
> and the file selector's behavior more alike.

I don't know what you are talking about.  Are you talking about symbolic
links?

  Federico