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

[Jan Claeys <lists janc be>]

Op donderdag 29-03-2007 om 17:50 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Calum
Benson:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:45 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> 
> > Actually, since Win98 & Win2k Microsoft embeds the same component in
> > explorer & the file dialogs, which means that you can copy, move,
> > rename, ... files just like in explorer.
> 
> Oh yeah...http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/file95.htm --
> scroll down to the Attention Deficit Disorder section :)
> 
> (To be fair, it's the appearance of all this functionality in the Open
> dialog that's called into question there, not the Save dialog...) 

I never said we should copy them, just that sometimes it's very useful
to be able to make changes to the currently viewed directory in such
dialogs.  An "open file manager here" button would be a possible
solution that doesn't clutter the UI as much...  :)


-- 
Jan Claeys