Re: spatial stuff detail

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 02:07, Raphael Bosshard wrote:
> My only concern is that there will be a gap between the usual file 
> handling (like moving files from one place to the other) and opening 
> files from an application (File->Open).

May people, like tigert for instance never use the open dialog. They
just drag stuff from the file manager to the apps.

> Any idea how the object-oriented idea could be applied to the new file 
> picker? Else, users will still have the location-based based file 
> management around.

Of course, there will still be some amount of navigational UI in the
open dialog, and you can't really get rid of the save dialog...

> I like the idea though. I'm really curious how it "feels" like.

You can already try out the branch. Note that its far from finished and
polished though.

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