Re: This is a Troll!

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Jens Askengren wrote:

> mån 2002-09-16 klockan 03.16 skrev Sean Middleditch:
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> > I recall reading that since glib supports plugins, the file-dialog may
> > be designed as one - people without gnome-libs would get a plainish file
> > dialog, while those with gnome-libs could get a gnome-enhanced dialog,
> > even on gtk-only apps.  Is this not going to be the case, then, or do we
> > get this coolness?
> >    
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> The gnome-enhanced dialog might in particular contain mime-type icons, 
> something that I suspect will never be implemented in gtk+.
>  
The file chooser in libegg uses a small file system abstraction object. 
A simple one would be provided with gtk+, and a VFS aware one would be 
provided with libgnome maybe.  The filesystem object provides a 
"get_item_icon" method, which could use the gnome-vfs mime and icon 
loader code on GNOME, win32 APIs for the Windows port, and some fallback 
for plain GTK+.

James.

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