From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
To: Rahguzar <rahguzar@zohomail.eu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: An emacs based `xdg-desktop-portal` filechooser
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:34:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5x5rlfj.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leh4p7ni.fsf@zohomail.eu> (rahguzar@zohomail.eu's message of "Wed, 31 May 2023 22:16:11 +0200")
Rahguzar wrote:
> Hi All,
> During the past few weeks, I have been working on an Emacs based
> implementation of filechooser backend of `xdg-desktop-portal`. It is
> very rough around the edges but I have working version at
> https://codeberg.org/rahguzar/filechooser.
Thanks! This is great news for us EXWM users. My 2c below:
> The choices combo boxes are not implemented. I don't what would be a
> good interface for them (suggestions welcome) and I have in my
> (limited) experience.
Ideas: You could ask for it sequentially before or after specifying the
file name. Or in case of choosing a file extension, you could check the
extension in the user input and ask the user to confirm.
> In my opinion minor compared to these is the fact the filechooser
> dialogues are not modal, i.e. you can still freely interact with the
> window that sent the file selection request.
Perhaps you could temporarily rebind 'C-x o', 'mouse-1' etc.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-12 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-31 20:16 An emacs based `xdg-desktop-portal` filechooser Rahguzar
2023-06-01 18:42 ` Peter Oliver
2023-06-02 20:00 ` Rahguzar
2023-06-12 11:04 ` James Thomas [this message]
2023-06-12 15:28 ` Rahguzar
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