Appearance of the new Add-Application dialog

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

Hi,

Just got aware today of the new MIME handling in Nautilus 2.7. Great
stuff, right direction. Well, but somehow I have the feeling, that the
"Add Application" dialog fit the look and feel introduced by the file
choosers of GNOME 2.6. Guess it's obvious, that those dialogs should fit
that look and feel, since they deal with file handling. What disturbes
me? It's the "Browse" button: Opens yet another Window, which is not
really neccessary, as the "Save As" chooser we have since GNOME 2.6
shows. In my very personal opinion it would be much better (in terms of
convenience and consistency) to use some expandable file browser for
visual file selection. Since pictures sometimes say more than thousand
words, here some pictures:

Currently the "Add Application" dialog of Nautilus 2.7 looks this:
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~hasselma/nautilus27/currently.png

The layout I'd suggest would look like this, when the browser is closed:
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~hasselma/nautilus27/gnomish-closed.png

And like this, when the browser is expanded:
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~hasselma/nautilus27/gnomish-open.png

Guess we have to discuss this quickly, cause the GNOME 2.8 UI freeze is
close.

Ciao,
Mathias
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Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>
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