Re: Look and Feel

[Rogelio Serrano]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:07:42 -0500, Adrian Robert
<arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > To answer the question: as long as GNOME have made their file
> > dialogue make it obvious how to:
> >  * set the filename
> >  * set the directory (GNUstep's is a little weak on this)
> >  * set the file type, if such things are in their file dialogue
> > ...then I think it's fine and probably better than
> > imitating the Windows one.
> 
> I'm not sure if this made it into GTK-2, but the GTK/Gnome-1 file
> dialog had really excellent filename completion abilities.  Type in the
> first part of a name, and the list scrolls to it.  Hit tab, and it
> completes, all the way if there's a unique completion.  If it's a
> filename it just selects it, but if it's a directory it switches to it
> and updates the display.  This makes navigating through a hierarchy to
> find a file a snap -- only the NeXTstep columnar view even comes close
> in terms of efficiency/usability to experienced users.
> 
>
[snipped...]

Well if its so important why not write patches then? Its only a
problem for windows users. Well my father is a windows user but he
appreciates the big tiles at the edges, the right click menus,  the
left handed scrollbar and the hide menu item. I think that with the
right combination of apps its easy to unlearn the windowisms.

I believe that the next interface is one of the strong features of
gnustep. Taking that away is going to cripple gnustep. After the next
interface is gone whats left?

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