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OS X does at least have the ability to create a new folder in a save dialogue.


"Oh, OSX does stuff like this!" is not a valid justification, nor is the perception that OS X is some kind of usability oracle. For some reason that attitude seems to pervade everyone who associates themselves with Gnome. You see people spinning on Mac forums like this as well.


I love watching people squirm coming up with reasons for stuff like this.


No, that is not what an open, and especially a save dialogue, is supposed to do, and it just shows how people have been brainwashed by this stuff. A file dialogue is there for you to provide a file path for opening. Certainly in the case of saving, that file path doesn't exist, because the file itself doesn't yet exist. The file dialogue should then do what it needs to do to make that file path resolvable, including creating any folders that don't exist and giving the user the tools to achieve that. If you can't then you can't create a file path.

A file dialogue is a tool used to save and open file paths, not individual files. If that was the case you would have a system with no directory structure where all files would be saved in the root directory. Then the arguments would make sense.

Logically, taking this approach you can argue that file dialogues should not be creating file paths at all in any way, and thus, when saving you should create a file of the type you need in Nautilus first and then navigate to it in the save dialogue of the application so it can be saved. When you install a piece of software and it goes through the wizard, and you then come to the part where you decide where you want it installed, if the file path doesn't exist should it say "I'm sorry, you need to create the file path and any folders first through Nautilus"?

When you're part of a niche who thinks they're doing things cool and different, you can get away with this stuff. When you have more people using your desktop this is the kind of issue that tends to crop up. A lot.

OS X does at least have the ability to create a new folder in a save dialogue.
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And so does GNOME. I use that feature all the time.

OS X does at least have the ability to create a new folder in a save dialogue.
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You're implying Gnome can't do that, but it can.
Whence the confusion?
Or did they remove it after 2.16, the one I just checked it on? That would make little sense if they did.

edit: O_o someone was first..

Edited 2008-04-01 13:09 UTC

Why all the ranting and flailing at empty air?

Why all the babbling about "resolving paths" instead of dealing with files (a concept that would be lost on most users, btw)?

There's a big "Create Folder" button in the Gnome save file dialog, right next to the breadcrumb buttons.

Gnome does this, so what's the issue?



In the same way the let's include everything and the kitchen sink pervades the KDE way of thinking? See what I did there?


No, that is not what an open, and especially a save dialogue, is supposed to do, and it just shows how people have been brainwashed by this stuff. "

Ah I see. So people who have adopt a different approach and prefer that approach are mindless sheep who have been brainwashed. Got ya.

There are different DEs for different people. I like the OS X and Gnome way of doing things. You obviously don't. Choice is good, aye?

"OS X does at least have the ability to create a new folder in a save dialogue. "

So does gnome.