Would making the Wine file dialogs know about the Nautilus bookmarks be a reasonable thing?

[Scott Ritchie]

Assuming you're running Gnome, as I'm not sure there's a freedesktop
standard for the Bookmark feature yet (and perhaps there should be).

In every Gnome nautilus window, save dialog, and file open dialog
there's a standard set of folders you see on the side as quick links.
Some are obvious, and we duplicate them (eg Desktop), others are
automatic, like gvfs links to external hard disks. Users can also add
their own.

Would it be appropriate to display those self-added bookmarks in Wine?
I'm worried there might be something I'm missing about the
implementation that would make this difficult or a bad idea.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

Would making the Wine file dialogs know about the Nautilus bookmarks be a reasonable thing?

[Vitaliy Margolen]

On 12/12/2011 04:34 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> Would it be appropriate to display those self-added bookmarks in Wine?
> I'm worried there might be something I'm missing about the
> implementation that would make this difficult or a bad idea.

It would only work with v6 controls, not the old dialogs Wine currently 
have. There is no place to add such bookmarks.

Vitaliy.

Would making the Wine file dialogs know about the Nautilus bookmarks be a reasonable thing?

[André Hentschel]

Am 13.12.2011 04:44, schrieb Vitaliy Margolen:
> On 12/12/2011 04:34 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > Would it be appropriate to display those self-added bookmarks in Wine?
> > I'm worried there might be something I'm missing about the
> > implementation that would make this difficult or a bad idea.
>
> It would only work with v6 controls, not the old dialogs Wine currently have. There is no place to add such bookmarks.

I'd say e.g. XP does it with v6, so we could do so, too. I had that idea long ago, but it failed on missing knowledge about comctl32 and missing time...


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Best Regards, André Hentschel

Would making the Wine file dialogs know about the Nautilus bookmarks be a reasonable thing?

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Scott Ritchie <scott(a)open-vote.org> wrote:
> Would it be appropriate to display those self-added bookmarks in Wine?
> I'm worried there might be something I'm missing about the
> implementation that would make this difficult or a bad idea.

File open/save dialogs use the standard SDK templates, which are supposed
to be changed/resized/subclassed using a documented way. Since many apps
add a bunch of additional controls and rely on the dialogs to be correctly
resized after that, adding something non-standard is not really feasible.

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Dmitry.