--- Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/17/06, Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Now 2.14 has been released, I wonder whether > anyone on > > the GTK team could review the documentation I > wrote > > for the Open and Save dialogs. > > > > It's in the GNOME Desktop User Guide, under > Desktop > > Overview/Applications: 2.5.3.âChoosing a File to > > Open and 2.5.4.âSaving a File. > > > > It was requested these be covered in the guide, as > > they have many features that are not widely known. > > Please could you take a look, and let me know if > > there's any features I have missed, or if I've > made > > any mistakes. > > Here are some comments from looking through it > quickly: > > - Don't know if you want to discriminate the OPEN > and SELECT_FOLDER > modes of the file chooser. Its probably worth > mentioning the differences > somewhere: SELECT_FOLDER shows files unselectable > in the file list, > and has a "Create Folder" button. > > - "current location" means the pathbar ? It would > perhaps be helpful to > add a screenshot of the file chooser with some > labels to explain the > terminology. > > - You should probably explain the scrolling feature > of the pathbar > > - You don't mention remote files at all. Maybe this > is an advanced topic, > but bookmarks can point to remote locations, and > when opening them, > you may get a gnome-vfs authentication dialog. > Also, the C-L location > entry allows you to enter urls pointing to remote > locations. > > - Bookmarks can also be added/removed by DND > > - It might be worthwhile to explain that the "Open" > button is "smart". It > tries to do the right thing, depending on your > previous action.
There's already this: 'If you open a folder or a location instead of a file, the Open File dialog updates to show the contents of that folder or location.' Does it need to be clearer or more prominent? > - You don't mention the "Replace" dialog that you > may get when selecting > and exisiting file in the save dialog. Thanks for looking at this. I'll get all of this into the User Guide in time for 2.14.1. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list