Re: File selector talk writeup

[Dan Mills <thunder ximian com>]

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 01:38  PM, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 20:17, Dan Mills wrote:
> > On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 06:37  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >
> > > Other than encoding though I can't think of any good examples of
> > > common add-ons.
> >
> > If you have a file that can be read in more than way, an open dialog
> > would need a drop-down box to allow the user to choose (i.e., an
> > "import"-style menu).
> >
> > For example, if you have an app that can display all xml files using a
> > generic tree view, but can also render a subset of xml docs in a more
> > specialized manner.
>
> That doesn't necessarily belong to the open file dialog.  You can
> organize the UI by having e.g. File -> Import or whatever.

That is true.  It is also possible to have "File->Open readonly..." 
instead of having a checkbox in the open dialog.

The problem with import is that some programs can import from many 
formats, so having a drop-down box in the open dialog is (imho) cleaner 
than having File->Import foo doc, File->Import bar doc, File->Import 
baz doc, etc.

-Dan