> On 2019-12-29, at 7:27 AM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 28/12/19 1:54 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> As to specifics of the usability of the saveas dialogue, that's down
>> to 'having' to use the directory tree widget etc. I suspect we could
>> do something much better if we wanted to.
> 
> Rather than tie ourselves into Filesystem dialog UIs and get sucked into debates on native/squeak looks, it would be useful to have proxy objects around directories and files/symlinks/devices. 

Adding drag/drop handling to more tools would provide a lot of such functionality. Having a UI item that is an interface to a single directory instead of having to use an entire FileBrowser would be nice.


tim
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