Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Change default file-filter in open-dialog

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Felix, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Felix Ruoff
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:35 PM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: gEDA-user: PCB: Change default file-filter in open-dialog
> 
>   Hello,
> 
> I wondered, why the file-filter at the open-dialogs of pcb is 
> not selected by default. For me, it is more comfortable if 
> there are just the files shown, which can be loaded by this 
> programm/function. I have also looked at other software and 
> most of them do this this way (the only one I found which 
> shows all files by default is OpenOffice.org).
> 
> I appended a patch which changes this behaviour.
> 
> Any comments are welcome!
> 
> Felix
> 
> @The main developers: I do not send this patch to the 
> sourceforge-patch-tracker now because I think, this Patch is 
> not really essential. If it is easier for you if I send all 
> my patches to the tracker, please send me a message and I 
> will add this one (and all later patches)!
> 

Commit message says it all:

Author: Bert Timmerman <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>  2009-03-31 22:33:02
Committer: Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  2009-08-05 08:06:21
Parent: 3b2a77744f50a33bb1507aa8062c51e0934a5b89 (Replace 'README.cvs' with
'README.git'. [2810417])
Child:  e2c5002166158dab7cf43d4745b594e510056071 (Correction of the pcb
homepage url in the about dialog window.)
Branches: master, remotes/origin/master, remotes/origin/pcb-20091103,
remotes/origin/sdb-playpen
Follows: pcb-20081128-base
Precedes: pcb-20091103-RELEASE

    Apply filters to load filechooser dialogs. [1988982] [2686963]
    
    Applies filters to the filechooser dialogs when loading layouts,
    layouts (to buffer), elements (to buffer) and netlists.
    
    Default behaviour is to not filter in the filechooser dialog.
    Choosing a predefined filefilter in the filechooser dialog filters
    on registered mime types, lowercase and uppercase file extensions.
    Predefined filters are selected upon the action chosen in the "File"
    pulldown menu.


IMHO, being able to see *all* available files in a directory listed at
startup of the dialog, and not have been restricted in my view by the GUI,
still is a good thing.

In making GUI design decisions it is difficult to please all possible users.

Maybe make this configurable ?

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman



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