Re: File selection dialog changes

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 12:12:45PM -0800, Matthew Brown wrote:
> John R Sheets writes:
>  > I guess my main complaint against MS's implementation is the
>  > invisible, voodoo nature of the right-click menus.  You shouldn't
>  > have a feature only visible or accessible through the right mouse
>  > button.
> 
> Not on a dialog, where users don't expect to have to interact with
> menus.  The real problem here is that microsoft went for 'idiot
> consistency' -- the file dialog's display area is a mini-Explorer,
> complete with all the features.

actually I remember a discussion some time back which I still think is valid
(for gnome 1.2 definately:)

when the gnome-file-dialog is created it tries to talk to gmc via corba
to request a panel which it will embed in itself instead of the normal
file list ... if gmc is not availabe just use the normal file list ...

then we get 100% consistency across file handeling ... and probably dnd
without any extra effort

George

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