On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 01:18 +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:11:51PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > The new gtk+ file selector has to be the worst abomination in user > > interface design that I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. > > Hehe. > > On Atari ST, people _paid_ for commercial alternative file selector > boxes! Some of them were really good. :-) > > I don't understand what's so hard to get _file_selection_ done right. Mmmm, maybe you have answered your own question ;-] My guess is that file selection is a tricky subject because everyone thinks about how to do things a little differently, so everyone wants there file selector to work a little differently. I'm actually quite happy with the GTK+ file selector, for what it's worth. There's a few things (like big directories taking too long to appear) that bug me, but I think it's orders of magnitude better than the last file selector. I love that all my mounts appear as a list and that I can just mount them there (instead of having to do it elsewhere and come back). I can't wait until other applications figure that own out (for example gFTP). R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side"