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How to get more attractive open/save file dialogs?
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PostPosted: Thu 17 Feb 2011, 09:14    Post subject:  

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Manuals are meant to be read. Wink


er... Embarassed what can I say... touché...
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PostPosted: Fri 18 Feb 2011, 22:17    Post subject:
Subject description: reading
 

what, no comic books? (and thanks again for the handbook, D. - it is appreciated when I do settle down to read in a focussed manner)

seem to recall some efforts throughout the years to organize ui (but seeing as this topic goes on about open/save, here's a comic panel for one of the ones I thought well of). Some file managers have their own nice helpers like mc, qtcmd and so on - easier to keep some habits and methods of going about tasks that way.
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PostPosted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 07:09    Post subject:  

Off topic - I only just noticed that the menus in mtPaint are detachable (at least in the version I have).
That's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time!

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PostPosted: Mon 04 Jul 2011, 04:35    Post subject:  

disciple wrote:
Most of the programs in Puppy use GTK, so I presume you are referring to the standard GTK open and save dialogues.
I think to replace them you would need to patch GTK, and there are probably no patches available to do so... but you could look Smile

I'm pretty sure there has been some discussion over the years about major changes to them, but I'm not certain where it's got to...

Maybe I was just thinking of patches like the ones at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325150

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Sep 2011, 00:40    Post subject:  

People interested in quicker keyboard navigation in the gtk file chooser dialogue should also check out the examples using gtkrc at http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/GtkFileChooser.html.
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PostPosted: Fri 16 Sep 2011, 08:50    Post subject:  

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Signal name Default key combinations

location-popup Control+L (empty path); / (path of "/") [a]; ~ (path of "~")
up-folder Alt+Up; Alt+Shift+Up [b]; Backspace
down-folder Alt+Down; Alt+Shift+Down [c]
home-folder Alt+Home
desktop-folder Alt+D
quick-bookmark Alt+1 through Alt+0


Thank you for the resource Disciple, the keybindings shown in that site are wonderful, and it seems they can even be further customized by modifying the gtkrc file. Great improvement in usability! Thank you! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun 23 Oct 2011, 04:03    Post subject:  

wjaguar wrote:
disciple wrote:
I'm pretty sure there has been some discussion over the years about major changes to them, but I'm not certain where it's got to... I guess it's most likely to come in GTK3.

GTK3 has been released a couple days ago... and looks like not much, if anything, has changed in this specific widget:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkFileChooser.html

Ah - some changes to the file chooser have made it into GTK 3.2... although they didn't come out of the discussion I was remembering.

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PostPosted: Sat 10 Dec 2011, 18:32    Post subject:  

You guys might be interested to know that pcmanfm is intending to do this:
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10 Use the file manager widgets provided in libfm to replace the default file dialogs in gtk+ by preload the lib with LD_PRELOAD

I don't know what their widgets are like though (I'm guessing more like the ones in MS Windows)... and if they were intended to be in the "release at the end of 2009 or Q1 of 2010" they're well behind schedule.

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PostPosted: Mon 04 Jun 2012, 01:21    Post subject:  

disciple wrote:
You guys might be interested to know that pcmanfm is intending to do this:
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10 Use the file manager widgets provided in libfm to replace the default file dialogs in gtk+ by preload the lib with LD_PRELOAD

I don't know what their widgets are like though (I'm guessing more like the ones in MS Windows)... and if they were intended to be in the "release at the end of 2009 or Q1 of 2010" they're well behind schedule.

A cool project for someone would be to do this with the Rox style "save as" dialogue instead.

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PostPosted: Mon 04 Jun 2012, 02:29    Post subject:  

I'm guessing rox-clib could provide the main functionality...
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PostPosted: Thu 05 Jul 2012, 03:58    Post subject:  

Here's an interesting link I didn't come across before:
http://members.chello.nl/~h.lai/gtkenhancements/

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PostPosted: Tue 07 Aug 2012, 09:32    Post subject:  

disciple wrote:
Off topic - I only just noticed that the menus in mtPaint are detachable (at least in the version I have).
That's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time!

But I see these "tear off" menus are a deprecated feature of GTK, much to the annoyance of some developers Sad

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