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The State Of The GTK+ File Selector
Anonymous BillyGoat writes "The next stable release of GTK+ (from the 2.4x series) will have a new file selector, and of recent, a lot of activity has been going on around that. One of the GNOME artmasters, Tigert, has released a mockup of the new file selector and the GTK developers are busy working towards that. Meanwhile the people from OSNews have some other ideas, while an OSNews reader has made even better mockups."
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this is what passes for "stuff that matters" these days?
what's next, a front page article every time Linus passes gas?
Maybe I should read into this more, but who is Eugenia, and what does sending him/her love have to do with saving my files?
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Now that the fileselector is improved, what will you bitch about now?
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It looks like sending love to Eugenia is on by default in the file selector. I always hated having to goto a bash shell after opening a file and doing an "echo love > /home/eugenia/warm_fuzzies".
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I still don't see how this is going to help my shell prompt.
Maybe people get hung up on it b/c file selection is used all the time and the old one was an eyesore. Sorry, it was. This one is much improved though it still has a 1980's feel to it.
>> Now that the fileselector is improved, what
>> will you bitch about now?
Well, since bitching about it has gotten it improved a bit, maybe people will still bitch about it and get it improved more. If nobody said anything it would have stayed as it was.
Reminds me of an old joke:
A new couple just had their first child, a baby boy, and were extremely excited to go through all the parenting ordeals. Diaper changes, late night feedings aside, these things would lead to wonderful moments like the first time he crawled. The first time he walked. The first time he spoke. The days went on and as the baby aged he went through all the usual stages of baby-hood. He crawled like no other and once he started walking it was all they could do to keep up with him. A year passed and he hadn't said a word. The parents asked the doctor and he said it was normal for some children not to begin speaking until they were 1 1/2 and possibly 2. The terrible 2's hit with not even a whimper. The doctor continued to reassure them that there was nothing wrong with their child but they grew worried. The years rolled on and still not a peep. Then on his sixth birthday he looked down at his chocolate cake and said "I don't like chocolate cake. I prefer vanilla". The parents were flabbergasted. "Why haven't you spoken before?!?!", they asked. "Everything was fine up until now", he replied.
It's a freakin' file selector, what did YOU want done with it?
I personally would like to see it be multi-thread safe and written in assembly for maximum file selection performance.
I'm posting this as AC to protect the innocent. I've talked to some people that worked on those mockups, and found out that next month they plan to have a file save yes/no dialog box mockup completed as well. Buy the end of this year the whole file menu should be working, so in 2005 they'll be able to tackle the whole Edit cut/copy/paste menu thing so that we'll be able to actually cut and paste reliably between apps in Linux. 2004 is off to a great start!
Seriously, these file dialogs don't have enough alphablending. While they're at it, they should throw in some lens flare too.
Neither of them are particularly inspiring though, I thought the community was hoping to steal the hearts and minds of the consumer in 2004.
I think you're right. We are trying too hard to copy what has already come before. No matter how good we do it, we are still copying.
So, with my years of experience at interface and graphic design, I've spent the last couple hours trying to come up with a file selector that tries to be, as you said, inspiring.
What do you think?
http://mshiltonj.com/new_stuff/file_selector.html
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