[SailfishDevel] File chooser

[Martin Kolman]

4.11.2013 02:10, Artem Marchenko:
> I'd appreciate some UI guidelines voice from Jolla here (I can 
> understands they might have not thought of this use case before, well, 
> it's time for it then :)).
>
> Looking at iOS and Android, it might be not a bad idea to have a phone 
> UI without an explicit file interface at all. Hackers won't appreciate 
> it, but they have terminal anyway and, well, for them you can create a 
> custom File Open dialog.
>
> Regular users might appreciate a photo choosing dialog guaranteed to 
> include all device photos more.
Yeah, I think those two are not mutually exclusive & doable. IIRC there 
should be Tracker, so it should be possible to get all photos or any 
other categories of files Tracker can discern (all audio files, all txt 
files, all PDFs).
But on the other hand, some applications just won't do without a 
standard file-chooser, like a text editor, offline comic book reader, an 
image editor. At least without getting and putting the files on a global 
file heap, making finding stuff difficult.
Of course a lot can be done with tags and semantic stuff (where did the 
file come from, what app made it), but as shown by the KDE & GNOME 
projects (Nepomuk, Akonadi, Tracker, etc.) it is not easy to get right. 
Just having a simple time-proven file open dialog is IMHO a much 
simpler, easier & safer solution.

BTW, Android and to a lesser degree Harmattan could be used as a bad 
example of what happens if there is no default file dialog - every app 
that needs it would implement their own, all looking different (and not 
native) and every one of them with their own set of drawbacks.
>
> Cheers,
> Artem.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Martin Kolman 
> <martin.kolman at gmail.com <mailto:martin.kolman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     1.11.2013 22:16, Janne Pulkkinen:
>>     Sailfish would benefit from having a default file/directory
>>     chooser instead of having different implementations made by
>>     different developers which would only make the OS appear
>>     inconsistent for the average user.
>>
>>     Just putting this out there, because I would really like to see
>>     this implemented in the SDK.
>>
>>
>>     2013/11/1 Damien Caliste <dcaliste at free.fr <mailto:dcaliste at free.fr>>
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         On Fri Nov      1 08:54:03 2013 khertan at khertan.net
>>         <mailto:khertan at khertan.net> wrote:
>>         > For the file selector, it should not be difficult to make
>>         one with a
>>         > SilicaListView, and the qmldir extension.
>>         Ok, I'm new to QML, I didn't know about qmldir. I'll give a
>>         look. But I was hopping something common to avoid discrepency
>>         on the platform. Thanks for the info.
>>
>>         > For notification, i ve made a something similar but more
>>         simple to the
>>         > Harmattan InfoBanner for ownNotes :
>>         > http://khertan.net/blog/silica_infobanner
>>         Great. I'll give a look also waiting for something from Jolla
>>         if any. Thanks.
>>
>>         Regards,
>>
>>         Damien.
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>     What about the FileDialog component[1] introduced in Qt 5.1 ?
>     The documentation says that it will use a native platform
>     file-open dialog if available,
>     so maybe just make a silica themed file open dialog and show it
>     once the FileDialog component is used ?
>
>     [1]
>     http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.1/qtquickdialogs/qml-qtquick-dialogs1-filedialog.html
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