Re: File Dialog

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com> writes: 
> 	So what are you suggesting?  That we wait for a Gnome FileSelector
> widget to be finalized, so that we can then create a trimmed-down,
> non-CORBA, widget kit-only version for Gtk+?  If that's the case, we're
> stuck with the bastardized Son-of-Motif widget forever.
>

There are two issues; one is improving the current widget without
breaking anything (it sounds like Luke Holden has this) and the other
is a nice new widget with an icon list etc. There is no point
radically reworking the widget, just to get something that will be
totally inconsistent with GNOME apps.
 
> 	How can Gtk+ get a file selector based on the Gnome widget if
> Gnome is going to use components for its file selection U.I.?  (A: It
> can't.)
> 

Well, one factor here is that currently libgnomeui does not require 
GNOME the desktop to be installed. So GNOME should at least fall back
to an in-process widget if it can't launch the desktop's file manager,
and that in-process widget should probably use gnome-vfs etc.

I am the wrong person to ask though, I hate file selectors, I want C-x
f from Emacs: a text entry with a history and tab completion, and
maybe a button next to it to open Nautilus if you need to browse or
create a directory. ;-) So I'm pretty indifferent anyway. Maybe see
what the Eazel UI people think.

Havoc