[Libreoffice-ux-advise] FilePicker reworked

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hi Christoph,

On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 23:00 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Sounds very good to me ... just a small question: What do you mean by
> places. Is it more the "kind of data source" (smb vs. cmis vs. file
> system), or something like hierarchical paths within a data source. How
> many of such places might exist (if its the former). I'm currently think
> about what the "root" element in such a file dialog should be ... 

I was thinking it more in the GNOME way with a list of items like:

Fixed items:
  * Recently used (could replace the Recent documents menu item)
  * Local File System
  * Home

Server items:
  * FTP Server
  * WebDav Server
  * CMIS Repo
  * SMB share

> By the way, I tried to find the specification for the OOo file dialog
> rework ... without success. But I've noticed that Caolan helped to bring
> the Gnome file dialogs "into" OOo:
> http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/file-chooser-spec.sxw

Sure and that one is great.... but only for GNOME users :)

> 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.

Thanks for your help,

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Cédric Bosdonnat
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