Thursday, July 28, 2005

kde's file dialog is a ... movie player!

kde's integration is amazing, really. even after hacking on it for the past few years i'm still surprised by it at times. like today when i went to open a file in an app after having saved a video. the file dialog obediently started in that same directory filled with videos, and since i had file previews turned on and kmplayer installed the video selected started playing right there in the file dialog.

who needs a separate video app? i can watch movies from any kde app that can open or save files ;)



p.s. thank-you, Scott Belford for the videos of the area of hawaii that i called home for some eight years. Scott, for those of you who aren't familiar with him, is a wonderful person who devotes his life (thanks in no small part to the loving devotion and support of his wife) to the hawaii open source education foundation and the trans-pacific open source software conferences. he's doing great things for open source in the islands, and he's great fun to go out on the town with =)

2 comments:

Diego Calleja said...

Awesome

Without trying to start a flamewar, it's sad when you compare this with GNOME offerings, because gnome uses GTK file dialog. Gnome uses the GTK file dialog and that thing is implemented at...gtk level, it only depends on gtk things. You can't even have a "view" to see video thumbnails - such functionality is implemented in nautilus; you only can see the preview of the file formats supported by gtk (png, jpg etc).

And even then, you've to select the file to see the preview (like in your kde's capture). There's no "thumbnails of images" view, because, duh, "views" is somethign implemented in nautilus not gtk. Very sad...

segedunum said...

I didn't seem him compare it to GTK and Nautilus, but nevermind....

And even then, you've to select the file to see the preview (like in your kde's capture). There's no "thumbnails of images" view, because, duh, "views" is somethign implemented in nautilus not gtk. Very sad...

That's double dutch, and I'm not sure what you're talking about there. What matters is not Nautilus and GTK, or Konqueror, Qt and KDE infrastructure, but the integration between them as one. I'll say no more......