Re: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 14:50 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Bryan Clark wrote:
> 
> > > The first, obvious transition is to a save dialog window with the same
> > > behaviour of the GtkFileChooserDialog, to use the tab completion + full
> > > path editing of the destination file; the currently used layout (preview
> > > + save stuff + (save, cancel, help) buttons can be bolted without much
> > > effort on a GtkDialog with an embedded GtkFileChooserWidget in save
> > > mode.  This is the structural change that I have in mind at the moment.
> > > Using a vertical layout might be the next move - I think there's too
> > > much wasted screen real estate in the current dialog.
> 
> > I think the tab completion is probably a good idea.
> 
> I hope you mean the same standard autocomplete as the file chooser but
> write tab completion out of force of habit, because tab completion breaks
> the use of tab to move through a dialog.

The autocompletion is done by the FileChooserWidget, so it's the same.

Really: the Screenshoot app save dialog should be nothing more than a
rearranged GtkFileChooserDialog with a preview, in my opinion.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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