Re: Directories traversal

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:17 +0200, Tom Bachmann wrote:
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> Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> > But there would still be a category of programs where
> > just a powerbox would not be enough: programs that browse directories
> > themselves, like image viewers.
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> When do image viewers browse directories themselves?

Tom: Consider gthumb.

Gthumb is actually two things: a browsing "shell" and a bunch of plugin
image viewers. If you look at it that way then *your* comment makes
sense (and I agree with it). But to users it does not appear that way,
and it is surprisingly easy for developers to forget this too.

Pierre: Consider that the failure to cleanly separate the shell from the
viewers in gthumb is actually a fundamental design error. Sometimes the
right solution is to fix the bad program. We can't do them all at once,
but we need to start somewhere.

shap