[haiku-development] Re: BFilePanel and URI/URL

Sergei Dolgov <dolgov@xxxxx> wrote:
> Current BFilePanel state indicates that its roots lie somewhere in 
> pre-historic era, when nobody heard about Internet. I'm mean 
> inability 
> to enter address for internet-resources there with standard means, 
> and 
> this is  big pain for net-capable applications, e.g. VLC.
> 
> And even for local files I prefer sometimes to enter full path 
> manually.
> I'm wondering if addition of field for unified resource locator 
> requires 
> some more deep changes (e.g. in BeOS "messaging"/"Received" hooks) 
> than 
> simple BFilePanel tweaking?

I don't really see the need to enter full paths (even though we could 
allow the name field to hold a full path), but I think it's a bad idea 
to make the file panel accept URIs.
This should only be done on a system wide level with the file panel 
benefitting from it.
With regards to VLC, I think a separate window to specify an URI is the 
preferred solution.

Bye,
   Axel.

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