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: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:24 AM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Change default file-filter in open-dialog
> 
>   Hi Bert,
> 
> Bert Timmerman wrote:
> > Commit message says it all:
> >      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 ?
> >
> you are right, this behaviour might not fit for all users. 
> Make it configureable seems a very good choice to me. So I 
> deleted this patch from sourceforge-tracker and will work at 
> a new patch which will hopefully be more comfortable.
> My idea is to store the filter from last using of the dialog 
> and use this filter again. The filter at the first launch of 
> pcb after the installation should be 'show all files' as you 
> suggested.
> 
> I am relatively new to the pcb-sourcecode. Can anybody give 
> me a hint where to store informations like this? I would 
> prefer to use functions from other (gtk-)libs like 
> g_key_file_*, but I did not found any using of them in the 
> pcb-sourcecode.
> 

Hmm, g_key_file_* and friends arrived at GTK version 2.6.

AFAICT, configure.ac checks for the GTK version to be at least 2.8.0, so all
gtk functions prior to that version (and not deprecated) should be
reasonable safe to use.

Let's see what comments the pcb-devs have on your patch ;-)

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.




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