Comments on: Concepts for a new “Open File Dialog” and “Search Dialog” using Zeitgeist

By: Caleb Dipilato

Caleb Dipilato — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:04:49 +0000

Finally got home to listen to this. I like Maroon 5 and i love Christina. I was worried if i wouldn’t like the song though, but i do I can see what you mean about Christina’s part, it is a very small part. I would of still liked the song if she wasn’t in it, but she makes me like it more.

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:25:57 +0000

IMHO the last one is the best

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:28:13 +0000

@spaetz: That would certainly make things even more interesting!

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:24:02 +0000

One thing that drives me barking mad with the current Open dialog is that I cannot browse the *folder* of an item from Recent Documents, I must either choose that item or navigate to its folder manually, ignoring Recent Documents altogether.

By: spaetz

spaetz — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:46:19 +0000

1) Nice
2) What if I want that document that I know I saved during a conference in Oct 2008. Those time interval buttons are nice, but I want to be able to limit the timeframe away from “until now”. f-spot had (has?) these nice sliders that allow you to limit the timeframe. I would want to be able to use something like that.
3) Videos/Documents/Pictures are nice, but not fine-grained enough. I want to search for that .odt document, or that .pdf one. Also, I believe you’ll have tags with docs, right? I want to search for that .pdf that I tagged as “work” and “project B” and not only search for filenames. Would that work now?

By: Zap

Zap — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:51:58 +0000

Personally I really like the “alternative version” in which you put captions “Today”, “Yesterday”,… in the scrolled window: it gives me the idea that I won’t have to click on a button if I realize that what I am looking for actually belongs to “last week” instead of “yesterday”: scrolling down is usually faster than aiming at another button.

By: kofm

kofm — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:12:22 +0000

Simply awesome!! :O
You rock man

By: amr

amr — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:31:06 +0000

can’t wait but we need to see it in nautulis elemnetary

By: tvst

tvst — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:38:13 +0000

Why not just do this:

- Add Zeitgeist to Nautilus (Elementary)

- Then add a “File Dialog Mode” to Nautilus, which would show an extra widget bar below the statusbar, containing a gtkEntry and a couple of gtkButtons.

For example, for the Open File Dialog, the bottom bar would look like:

“Filename: _____ [Cancel][Open]“

By: Julian Aloofi

Julian Aloofi — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:28:10 +0000

This looks amazing!
Filtering for file types in an open-file dialog is so extremely useful, great someone is working on getting all this stuff done
Zeitgeist team rocks!