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Original post by ze_jackal
I much prefer the Windows-style single pane view.
I liked the seperate directory and file views. It''s the main reason I''ll be writing a replacement GUI for it at some point. (I was writing one during GTK+ 2.3.x, but that source kept changing so much in each micro-release I decided to wait until 2.4.x was out to go back to doing so.)
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Original post by ze_jackal
Supposedly the new API allows for custom file selectors to be plugged in; that is just the default.
The new file chooser API allows for the backend to be changed (how it interacts with the file system); the old one exposes too much of the internals of the file selector ("file chooser" is the name of the new one, "file selector" is the name of the old one). If GNOME is installed (specifically, libgnomeui), GTK+ will use it to get better icons for files and such, among other added capabilities. Applications can also tell GTK+ to use remote file systems provided by the backend (which, in the GNOME scenario, would utilize gnomevfs). To actually change the GUI of the file selector much, one would need to patch GTK+. Little things, like preview or other miscellaneous widgets, have always been possible to add to the file selector/chooser (and, of course, the file selector/chooser don''t need to be in their own window; a developer can embed them as a normal widget in any container).
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