Re: NSMovieDirectory

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

let me sum up what I did, because this input spawned a lot of work!

Bertrand Dekoninck wrote:
> But the NSMoviesDirectory is lacking.
>
> Should I try to add it to base or to NSWorkspace.m as NSMusicDirectory 
> is already ?

I added support for NSMoviesDirectory. It has to be called Videos, the 
name is fixed as other directories. Videos seems also the most common 
name (windows included). The name is of course NSMoviesDirectory, 
because we retain code compatibility with Cocoa!
Thematic was quickly updated too.

Base and Gui were updated to handle Images, Movies and other folders 
more compliant to 10.6/10.8 with the correct functions, instead of being 
"hacked in" as before. Some of these were written in GNUstep when we 
only had certain 10.4 functions, so the code was some kind of hybrid.

Testing the code on Mac with Bertrand, showed that Mac tries to be very 
smart with symlinks and I tried to implement that.
The "original" image is alwas retrieved. So if a folder is either a 
direct symlink to a special fodler or inside a sylinked folder, the 
special folder icon is returned by [NSWorkspace iconForFile]

Added to that, I adapted and cleaned up GWorkspace to keepup with this 
and handle symlinks, including displaying them
GWorkspace attempts also a crude localization attempt, which in simple 
cases seems to work decently, but might have sideffects in trnslating 
unwanted stuff.

Thus I think we have a pretty decent situation now, let's settle the 
dust a bit and see if everything works fine.
We don't try to do any smartness with existing folders, freedesktop, 
already translated folder or such, but at least we are consistent with 
ourselve sand a "clean" GNUstep environment should work.

Riccardo

PS: wouldn't it be nice if Open and Save panel displayed their special 
folder icons too?