Hi Christoph,
On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 21:07 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote:
Okay, so "our" file picker will (might) replace the "platform specific"
file pickers, if server stuff is used, right? So we need to provide at
least the same interaction quality, I guess. Until today, the file
pickers were rather a "well, better than nothing" fallback.
My first intention wasn't to remove all the OS-specific file-pickers as
they are providing a better integration to the system. At least in a
first step I'ld keep them as is, but of course if we have no other way,
we'll need to have them out to support CMIS properly.
Hehe, I rather thought that Caolan might have some good input. Since it
is now known that he worked on the file picker, he can't escape ;-)))
I'll ask him about that ;)
And (for maybe further use), I've found and interesting blog posting
showing a number of different file dialogs:
http://martin.iturbide.com/?page_id=935
Great link, I think it could help. The only file-pickers providing
almost all the features I was mentioning are the GNOME and Windows 7
ones.
Mmh, although I really like to have a really consistent solution ...
combining e.g. local file handling and other sources. If people use the
CIFS functionality, how likely is it that they also require the other
sources (likeliness = importance, usage rate). I'd like to know whether
a separate solution might make sense (I'm sure you've thought about
that.)
I'm not really sure of that ATM. It really depends on what the
OS/platform implements. When all platforms will have CMIS support for
the file-systems, then we won't need the native file-picker any more...
but I think there's a long way before that ;)
The good thing in being able to add servers to the file-picker is that
we have an easy way to open FTP or WebDAV resources directly from
LibreOffice. As a first step, I'ld only improve "our" file-picker and
leave the CMIS integration feature when those are enabled.
Regards,
--
Cédric Bosdonnat
LibreOffice hacker
http://documentfoundation.org
OOo Eclipse Integration developer
http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr
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