Re: Spatial nautilus - fantastic - but what about the rest?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:

> Currently the browse mode for saving seems fine in the respect that one
> usually wants to save to the same directories most of the time.  What
> would be a better solution to make you happy while keeping the browse
> mode (which actually isn't browsing unless you open the browse tree) is
> to always have the file type icon and allow it to be dragged into a
> nautilus window.  Right now drag and drop just works for opening files.
>  
There is a specification for handling drag saving at:
   http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/XDS

I'm not sure if anything other than the ROX desktop uses this.

Implementing that spec would require changes to both the file manager 
and applications.  The file save dialog would need to be able to tell 
the application to save the document, and find out whether it was 
successful or not.  This differs from the existing API where the app 
pops up the save dialog, waits for the user to select the file and then 
gets the filename from the dialog.

Also, the file selector would need to be able to get access to the saved 
document as a memory buffer in order to handle step (3) of the 
walk-through in the specification.

James.

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