Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Save dialog, things left to do...

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:10:09 -0800
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:55:44PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> To be honest, I don't really like that layout at all, as the seperation 
> of folders and files isn't very intuitive.

Yeah, the current GTK+ file dialog is, I think, modeled after the Motif
dialog, which was, I think, modeled after (or followed the same CUA
specs as) the Windows 3.x dialog.

It's not considered one of the more attractive parts of GTK+; the intent
is, I think, to have a new one in a future GTK+ release (it's under
development, but I don't know if it's intended for 2.4 or 2.6).

> On the other hand, writing our own file handler dialog will be lot's of 
> work to do, so it's still on my wishlist...

We might just want to wait for the GTK+ folks to do a new one (or pick
up one of the alternate GTK+ file selection dialogs that I think are out
there).