Firefox - why is it better?

[Patrick Barnes]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>I really dislike the current GTK+ file selector, even ignoring its
>poor performance on big directories. But I disliked all other
>renditions to some degree or another as well. I've always chalked it
>up to taste and thus never complained.
>
>Why not make the file selector another app entirely? This would make
>it easier for there to be alternatives, plus it might fit in nicely
>with SElinux. (i.e. the app could be prevented from having FS access
>outside it's own files, but still have the ability to open user files
>since the file selector could be trusted to only open files the user
>actually selected, or only write to names the user selected).
>
>
>
I think the current selector is horrible.  The two things that bother me
(and that seem to bother a lot of other people) are slow read times for
large directories, and that it doesn't provide a quick and easy way to
type in a path and filename.  Being able to type the path in is such a
simple provision, I don't see why it isn't in the dialog.  I could live
with the poor speeds if I could simply type in an absolute name and not
have to worry about browsing or pulling up another dialog.  I like the
bookmark capability, but it could be expanded and improved upon.  I
personally think that the KDE dialog has it about right.

As for making it a separate program, I don't think that is really
practical.  It would (should) not help any with SELinux.  The dialog
returns only a filename, it is not its place to actually load or save a
file.  That is something that only the calling application should do.
Trying to change that fundamental idea would be foolish and very
problematic.  Being able to change dialogs would be nice, but I think
that it would be best implemented as 'profiles' or 'interfaces' for one
piece of dialog software, not by splitting the function to multiple
programs.

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Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
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