Re: File Dialog

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:20:56PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> Why is our file selector not a file manager window ?

Lack of vision :-)

The original Macintosh used a file seclector window because they didn't
have enough memory to run the file manager (FInder) in that way --
the first Mac had 256K of memory, quickly upgraded to 512K.

I think the Mac Plus had 1 megabyte, but the design was frozen by then.

If you have a metaphor for your documents, it should exist at all levels.
Files are documents tidily arranged on an infinite scrolling desk,
with little holes in the desk that drop down to embedded infinite tidy
desks called "subfolders".

So to save you should navigate to the right infinite desk and copy your
file into the appropriate position in the tidiness.

If this metaphor isn't what we want, we shouldn't have gmc or nautilus.

If it is what we want, we have to make it convenient to use and pervasive.

Lee

-- 
Liam Quin - Barefoot in Toronto - liam holoweb net - http://www.holoweb.net/
Ankh: irc.sorcery.net www.valinor.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
author, The Open Source XML Database Toolkit, Wiley, August 2000
Co-author, The XML Specification Guide, Wiley, 1999