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Re: new file open dialog



I think that the pop-down list is a good idea. Maybe someone could
copy the Interface that Mac OS X uses in its file selection
dialogs. It would have the normal folder hierachy and then a list of
bookmarks or favourites and finally a list of recent folders:

-------------
| stuff     |
| conrad    |
| home      |
| /         |
|-----------|
|Home       |
|Desktop    |
|Documents  |
|-----------|
|<bookmarks>|
|Place1     |
|Place2     |
|-----------|
|<recent>   |
|Place1     |
|Place2     |
-------------

And yes, please get rid of the three buttons on the left. I'm not sure
where the list of bookmarks would come from, maybe Nautilus has
something like this?

-Nathan

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:32:35PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> peloy@chapus.net (Eloy A. Paris) writes:
> > Ahhh, the pleasure of having useful buttons in the file selector
> > dialog... home, desktop, documents. What else one can ask for? :)
> 
> Actually those giant buttons seem like a waste of space -- home is
> arguably useful, but `desktop' and `documents'?  Who on earth puts
> anything there (I don't even _have_ a `documents' directory)?!?
> 
> And do they _really_ need icons the size of an aircraft carrier?
> 
> _Far_ more useful would be a pop-down list of the last N directories you
> used in the dialogue.
> 
> -Miles

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