Re: GNOME "Save as" dialog - defective by design

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> This is a design problem.
>
> There should be no such thing as "Save as..." dialog.
>
> Users expect all the file manager functionality from the dialog, so
> effectively the whole Nautilus gets recoded as a "Save as..." dialog,
> doubling the effort, bugs, fixes etc.
>
> We have it all coded in Nautilus, so why cannot we just use it?
> There should be a "save as" mode in Nautilus. When the GTK+ dialog is
> called, it should check if there is Nautilus present (it does that
> already, to show the mime icons AFAIR) and call it to open a window in
> "save as" mode and get the save path from there.
> If not - show the old plain GTK+ dialog without all the fancy stuff.

That wouldn't work right with things like preview panes. And it would 
opening such a dialog much slower. I'm sure some people will yell "bloat!".