Re: File Dialog

[chrisime uni de (Christian Meyer)]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:56:48AM -0400, Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir ximian com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:02:25PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > 
> > Here it is, and for those people who don't know that we had a UI Design
> > site, that URL as well.
> > http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-ui/hitsquad/filedialog.html
> > http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-ui/
> >
> 
> It might be worthwhile to look at the Mac OS X approach to this as well.
> I, for one, prefer the OSX approach, since it makes things simple from
> a user view.  Some screenshots:
> 
> http://primates.ximian.com/~vladimir/save0.png
> http://primates.ximian.com/~vladimir/save1.png
> http://primates.ximian.com/~vladimir/save2.png
> 
> I would think that a user simply wants to save to a specific folder most
> of the time, and that the folder is in general going to be in their Documents
> folder or some subdir thereof, perhaps one of the recent ones.  A dialog
> like this makes it simple and clear what the purpose of the dialog is --
> if the user really wants a file manager inside this dialog (and I admit,
> it can be useful), you can click on a button and get the extra browse view,
> along with the useful "Add to Favorites(sic)" button...
> 
> This type of interface also makes it easy to add storage plugins, like
> the WebDAV iDisk in the screenshot, or maybe saving to a tar file... if the
> save dialog was contextual based on the file type of the data that's
> about to be saved, things like "Save MP3" could have "Save to Rio 300" if
> one is plugged in and the like.
> 
> Anyway, just my thoughts.. in general, I think the file dialog should be more
> focused on "saving" instead of throwing the user into a mini file-manager.

I think that's something like the quickbar in windows fileselector.
AFAIK, you can drop some folders there. By clicking on them you select
the folder where your file should be saved. Apples approch is approx.
the same. They just did the same in a drop-down menu. The nice thing
about it is that you can browse DIRs there. Maybe this can somehow
implemented in the quickbar.
I've looked at kde's file selector again, yesterday. They have about
something like in macosX. You press a button and you get a browser
view.
I think we should discuss what is better. Having a quickbar or a
macosX-like approach.

Greetings,
Christian