Re: File Dialog

[Mikael Hermansson <mikeh bahnhof se>]

I would gladly help development of this because as many already have said
the old gtkfileselector really needs to be replaced...

Greats

Mikael H.

På Sat, 26 Aug 2000 02:11:45 skrev Havoc Pennington:
> 
> Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com> writes: 
> > 	Can I take this to mean you _would_ consider a new FileSel widget
> > for Gtk2, assuming a good one came along?
> > 
> 
> Not up to me. I'm pretty sure GTK 2 won't get delayed to wait for
> this; it is currently delayed waiting on GSignal and GtkTLView, more
> or less. Once those are in things are going to start freezing up.
>  
> > 	I would like to have the "issues of hooks to enable the dialog to
> > become GNOME-ified" clearly defined.  I want to make sure I do whatever's
> > necessary with my widget.
> >
> 
> Part of the work of writing any widget is figuring out what is
> necessary. I haven't figured it out. But in general, a subclass of the
> widget should be able to use gnome-vfs and gnome-mime.
>  
> > 	The FileSel is a bit tricky because it deals with things like what
> > icons to use for different file types... and how to determine a file's
> > type.  And drag'n'drop behaviour between the other filemanagers (Nautilus,
> > GMC) and external applications.  I'm not sure how the Gtk+ FileSel should
> > work, given that it will probably want to use CORBA in its Gnome
> > incarnation.  Will simply making all the functions virtual suffice?  Any
> > advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> 
> If I had time to figure that out, I would just write the widget. ;-)
> 
> Havoc
> 
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