GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 135901
Save dialog should have a drop-down for file types
Last modified: 2008-07-29 16:00:13 UTC
See the "Save As Dialog" section of this document: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/filechooser-spec/ We should have a nice drop-down with icons with the available file types for saving. The discussion of the API starts here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-February/msg00158.html
The new URL for the Filechooser Specs is this: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/designs/filechooser-spec/ Thanks Google for making our lives easier.
For 'SaveAs' can we not just pull the filter selection outside the expandable region ? otherwise we're going to need to add another (identical) custom filter selection combo in OO.o
No, they are not the same. The filter menu may have "All images" among its items, which is not a single file type.
Something like this is also necessary for the Open dialog in all manner of cases. It's particularly missing in OO.o where we wish to load eg. /tmp/fnurgh.doc as a CSV file in the spreadsheet [ something that happens quite often ] of course, the .doc filter will only show '.doc' files; making it impossible to select this file & adjust the filter combo to set it's type.
Ping? Can we get an API proposal for this?
Just for reminding about usability of filetype dropdown field in "Save As" dialog - now selected folder field and "Browse for other folders" control item is between filetype, encoding and other fields. Because of this users often don't notice "Browse for other folders" item or, when folder browser is expanded, don't notice filetype, encoding and other fields. Look for example current GIMP "Save As" dialog with expanded folder browser, I'm attaching it to this bugreport In screenshot bellow filetype dropdown field is near the filename and this is more usable, because file type is related to file extension in majority of cases: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/designs/filechooser-spec/save-as.png
Created attachment 77056 [details] "Save As" dialog with expanded folder browser - FileType chooser is hard to find :(
As a minor note. Please recall that there can be large numbers of file types. Some of which are related. A single drop down is not sufficient. It would be good to have the potential for a menu, and for 'recently used' types to be put at the top. eg -> OpenOffice 2.0 (ODF 1.0) -> Gnumeric ------------- -> MS Excel -> XL 95 -> XL 97/2k/xp/2003 -> XL 2007 (Office Open) -> DIF -> HTML -> fragment -> document -> Open Office -> Open Office 1.x (SXC) -> Open Office 2.0 (ODF 1.0) -> Open Office 2.1 (ODF 1.1) . . .
Currently a list is expanded so the dialog becomes very big. Does this bug deal with the widget type? A combo box should be used, IMHO, otherwise the dialog becomes very big.
*** Bug 328092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See also: 440431
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 440431 ***