file selector abstraction (GUI) (libfileselector.so)

[Ted Gould]

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:12 +0000, Mark Seaborn wrote:
> I would also argue that preview widgets should not be application
> specific.  A previewer should be registered to work across all
> applications.  For example, you should get previews when choosing a
> file to attach to an e-mail, but the e-mail application should not
> have to implement the previewers.

Well, for instance Inkscape implements it's own file preview.  This is
largely because Inkscape is a more complete SVG renderer than the normal
file preview.  It doesn't make sense to use the Inkscape previews for
all applications as it is much slower and for most people it doesn't
matter.

		--Ted

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