Re: new file selector dialog?

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

I'm actually keen on the other mock up.  Having the ability to modify
(drag/drop) frequently used locations in the sidebar would be great. 
Many times I've wished for more than just Home/Documents/Desktop.

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 22:12, Naba Kumar wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 22:01, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > mdew <mdew orcon net nz> writes:
> > > With the upcoming release of GTK2, I thought the file selector dialog
> > > maybe re-designed...To my surprise its still the same in 1.3.15, why is
> > > that?
> > > 
> > 
> > Because no one has redesigned it yet. It's planned later.
> 
> I don't know if you people will like it, but anjuta has an extremely
> good file-selector widget. It has all the features of gtkfileselector 
> plus many more. I summarize the features below:
> 
> 1) Clean, elegant and decent look.
> 2) Basic file manipulation, such  delete, rename, new folder etc.
> 3) Tab auto-completion just like gtk-fileselection.
> 4) Histroy browsing, like back, forward, up, home.
> 5) File type filter for various file extentions. This is something we
> have been missing in gtkfileselection for ages.
> 6) Show/hide hidden files.
> 6) Single and Multiple selection mode.
> 
> Screenshot: http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/naba/fileselector.jpg
> 
> Things need to be done if used for gtk+:
> 
> 1) It was basically designed for gnome, but the widgets used are basic
> gtkwidgets. so, there should not be much problem in cleaning up the code
> for gtk+ only. In fact, we are ready to do that.
> 
> 2) API wrappings to provide backward compatibility to the old gtk
> fileselector.
> 
> People wishing to try it out can get it from gnome cvs at:
> /cvs/gnome/anjuta/widgets/
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> -Naba
> 
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