Hi Kay, On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:15:02PM +0200, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: > > you can find the specification of the Gnome file picker integration here > > http://specs.openoffice.org/ui_in_general/index.html > > respectively the spec itself > > http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/file-chooser-spec.sxw > > Obviously the spec is in draft mode still, and, as far as I can see, > there is no motivation given to open the file open dialog fully > expanded.
True - there is no motivation from the implementor and the users. But "upstream" want it differently. Probably the spec has not been updated properly. > So, there is either a bug in the spec, missing the motivation, > or in the implementation doing something not speced. Please see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=51002 ,----[ cmc Tue Jul 12 00:42:17 -0700 2005 ] | upstream really has issues with the fpicker, they want all it's | expanders always expanded. I've caved in and implemented it that way, so | all expanders start off expanded, so makes this sort of moot :-( | | (though for the record SAL_NOEXPANDFPICKER will make then start off | unexpanded) `---- That's why I started this thread with the request to either export that variable by default or to revise the decistion completely. I totally agree that the current behaviour doesn't match the goal of the spec: ,----[ line 18f of the spec ] | Be a good citizen of the GNOME desktop by fulfilling the expectations of | a GNOME desktop user with respect to the file dialog. `---- Furthermore there are other points where the behaviour doesn't match the spec: The fpicker is never the default, even when the user is running gnome. IIRC this has been changed because early implementations of the fpicker used mutliple threads that with certain versions of gnome-vfs resulted in a crash. This problem has both been fixed in gnome-vfs and in the fpicker-code. When the Office is built without fpicker, the option to choose between native and system open/close dialogs is not checked and inactive, but missing completely. ciao Christian -- NP: Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
