Re: GNOME File Selector 0.1 released

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

On 9 Aug 2001, Erik Bågfors wrote:

> On 09 Aug 2001 15:00:13 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 7 Aug 2001, jacob berkman wrote:
> > 
> > > here are some open bugs regarding these issues:
> > > 
> > > "there should be a mac os-like tree view"
> > > 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58637
> > > 
> > > "there should be a NeXT-like multi-list view"
> > > 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58638
> > > 
> > > "look-in tab should display full/partial path"
> > > 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58655
> > > 
> > > i personally like the last one - and the other two are post 1.0.
> > 
> > 
> > 	Guess we should cross the frontier and create a "FileSelection"
> > plugin api so that everyone can use "his" file selector:
> > 
> > 	Your new one, the old one a NeXTish one (saw it on MacOS X... nice
> > idea) or maybe even Qt's or Motif's file selector...
> > 
> 
> 
> I like that idea!. just create one standard api and everyone can create
> a wrapper between that api and thier favorite fileselector.. Then I
> guess one can make a c-applet for selecting which one to use? :)

	IHMO such an plugin API just would continue what has started
with the loadable theme engines already. Users of pure Gtk+ could get
their "pure Gtk+" selector. User with GNOME installed would have the same
fancy file selector both in pure Gtk+ and in GNOME apps. By wrapping
plugins arround the Qt or the Motif API we could get a big improvement in
consistency. Maybe it's possible to convince the KDE people to adopt this
or a similiar technique... What a big step into a brighter world when
you could use the same set of common dialogs (yes, not only the file
selector) from applications using one of both widgetsets...


	Well. Doesn't matter for me at this moment if this idea will be
adopted for Gtk+ or gnome-core. As soon as I find some time I'll hack a
prototype demonstrating this technique.


Ciao,
Mathias
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