Re: [Pnet-developers] A few SWF ideas

[Ilyak]

> > 1) All attempts to implement windows-like file selection "suffer" from 
> > the fact hierachery is different
> >    
> The GTK+ file selection dialog works on both windows and *nix, and it's
> been the subject of near-constant UI reviews and discussions for
> usability, so it's probably be a good reference to use.
Well, i like GTK and use it extensively, but i don't find it that awesome...
There are a lot of interesting ideas. Question is: which one are needed 
and which are not.

> You should check
> the GNOME Usability mailing list archives for discussions about it (and
> plenty of mockups for proposed changes), especially the more recent
> threads.
>  
OK.

> > How about to make it FUN:
> > (house image)Homedir
> > (mountain image)Mountpoints
> > - (root picture) /
> > - (house image) /home
> > - (windows icon) /mnt/win_main
> > - (gear picture) /usr
> > and so on....
> >    
> Using icons based on phonetic similarities (i.e. a mountain image for
> Mountpoints) is an I18N and usability problem. If the word "Mountpoints"
> translates to something which is totally different than the word to
> which "mountain" translates, the meaning of the icon is lost, and the
> user will likely be confused.
Let's look on icon as on cute and easy-to-remember picture.
So one can just once remember 'mountain' is for mounts, and he can use 
it without confusion.
Btw, in russian mount have nothing in common with mountains...

> For something like the home directory, a
> house image works because its meaning is related to the concept of home,
> not the word "home".
>  
Alternatively, i guess, icons can be different for each language (ree 
resources/ pnetlib folder).

By the way: Currently, both file globbing and choosing file icons is 
hardcoded into FileDialog.
I find this quite inflexible. How about to take this out to, say, 
DotGNU.Files.Glob and DotGNU.Files.Classify.
This is true OO way and, we can make them differently sophisticated and 
resource-consuming  according to, say, profile 
(compact/ECMA/fullblown/etc...)

(currently, it thinks that only .exe are executable and .dll are 
library. this is quite useless  :(