[Libreoffice-ux-advise] FilePicker reworked

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hi Christoph,

On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 21:07 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Okay, so "our" file picker will (might) replace the "platform specific"
> file pickers, if server stuff is used, right? So we need to provide at
> least the same interaction quality, I guess. Until today, the file
> pickers were rather a "well, better than nothing" fallback.

My first intention wasn't to remove all the OS-specific file-pickers as
they are providing a better integration to the system. At least in a
first step I'ld keep them as is, but of course if we have no other way,
we'll need to have them out to support CMIS properly.

> Hehe, I rather thought that Caolan might have some good input. Since it
> is now known that he worked on the file picker, he can't escape ;-)))

I'll ask him about that ;)

> > > And (for maybe further use), I've found and interesting blog posting
> > > showing a number of different file dialogs:
> > > http://martin.iturbide.com/?page_id=935
> > 
> > Great link, I think it could help. The only file-pickers providing
> > almost all the features I was mentioning are the GNOME and Windows 7
> > ones.
> 
> Mmh, although I really like to have a really consistent solution ...
> combining e.g. local file handling and other sources. If people use the
> CIFS functionality, how likely is it that they also require the other
> sources (likeliness = importance, usage rate). I'd like to know whether
> a separate solution might make sense (I'm sure you've thought about
> that.)

I'm not really sure of that ATM. It really depends on what the
OS/platform implements. When all platforms will have CMIS support for
the file-systems, then we won't need the native file-picker any more...
but I think there's a long way before that ;)

The good thing in being able to add servers to the file-picker is that
we have an easy way to open FTP or WebDAV resources directly from
LibreOffice. As a first step, I'ld only improve "our" file-picker and
leave the CMIS integration feature when those are enabled.

Regards,

-- 
Cédric Bosdonnat
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