Re: New buttons in GTK filesel
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:38:05PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> I don't really see that it has much connection with `gnome users' -- if
> the buttons are just shortcuts to particular directories, you'd think
> they'd work fine in any GTK app as long as the directories exist.
>
> Morever, there are probably many `gnome users' -- people who use gnome
> apps (I'm one!) -- that do not want either the directories or the buttons.
>
> I think your first suggestion, to only show the buttons for which
> directories exist, is much better, and does directly address the
> problem.
>
> Ideally, you could simply make a list somewhere of your personal
> `useful directories' and have the file browser show buttons for them
> (if they exist :-); I see no reason to limit people to these especially
> horrible names.
Did you have a look at the real new file selector? The one eg in
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2004-03.html
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2004-02.html
This is the one in gtk2.4. Don't shoot at the wounded.
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