Re: Integrating optional file chooser implementations into GTK+

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:23 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In Poky Linux[1] we're maintaining what could be termed a fork of
> gtkfilechooserdefault.c targetted at devices with small screens.

And Maemo's Hildon provides a completely separate file chooser dialog,
which applications must explicitly use instead of the regular API. It
would be nice to kill that API.

> Basically we're removed large amounts of functionality, and added some
> extra options (such as the ability to restrict the file that the file
> chooser will display to a particular subtree) which are often useful.
> 
> Now, we'd love to stop having to resync this huge patch on every GTK+
> release because it's frankly quite huge.  Also, other people building
> mobile devices might find this file chooser far more suitable for their
> purposes than the default one.
> 
> Would there be any interest in us cleaning the patch up as a standalone
> file chooser implementation, adding it to the GTK+ sources, and then
> letting GtkFileChooser use a configurable (at configure time)
> implementation (defaulting to the current widget)?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ross
> 
> [1] http://pokylinux.org
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