Re: New file chooser (latest version)

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 08:25, Dave Neary wrote:

> This may be too late in the selection process to change anything, but 
> would it be possible to have a decent explanation of why the 
> GtkFileChooser that you're working on now differs so much from the 
> mock-ups I saw a few months ago from tigert?
>
> In particularly, why have you done away with a text entry box in the 
> main file selector, in favour of a pop-up hidden behind a magic key-combo?

Please read this:

http://www.gnome.org/~seth/filechooser-spec/

In particular, grep for "No entry widget".  If that doesn't answer your
questions, feel free to ask again.

> And is the current version final, or is there the possibility to 
> re-model things slightly to bring back at least a text entry box?

Not likely.  The release is pretty late already.

  Federico