From kde-devel Sat Sep 30 21:56:08 2006 From: "Alex Zepeda" Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:56:08 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: [Idea]Context Sensitive file dialog Message-Id: <486d5a5e0609301456y5536ea74odf951197bf9ecfe2 () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=115965341030289 On 9/30/06, Parker Coates wrote: > While this is an interesting idea, I think it would be just as likely > to get in the user's way as help them out. For example in you proposed > system, say I have configured ~/documents as my default download > location for PDFs. Now imagine I want to consecutively download three > homework assignments (in PDF format) to my ~/school/course101 > directory. Each time, the dialogue will start in ~/documents and I > will have to find ~/school/course101 myself. So make it configurable based on the mimetype, filename, and other metadata. Tag a file (and PDFs do support somewhat arbitrary metadata) with course 'foo' and it'll go to ~/school/coursefoo by default. IMO I'd much rather have such a system enter a directory by default than pop up a dialog box every time. Having some other widget in the dialog box to suggest a directory would take up too much screen real estate. What about entering a suggested directory by default, and the first time a suggestion is made, asking the user if they want to keep doing this, with options to disable for every file type or only 'this' file type? -- alex >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<