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Re: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export
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Gary Wong |
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Re: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:59:09 -0500 |
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:41:09PM +0100, Holger wrote:
> As for improving the limited GTK+ file dialogue: Why not use the
> standard one on Windows?
I expect we could (if somebody were to write and support it)... and
KDE people would also want gnubg to use a Qt widget, and Motif people
would want a Motif widget, and Mac OS X people would want Apple's
dialogue, and they would also want native printing support, nicer
integration with their platform's window manager(s), and so on;
there's no end of things we could do to satisfy certain groups of
users without improving gnubg at all on the platforms which GNU
software is aimed at.
Improving the GTK+ file selection dialogue would certainly be useful
on many platforms (including the GNU system), but it's not really our
job. If anybody would like to direct effort in this direction, I
think they will be best off co-ordinating with the GTK+ people --
enhancing the dialogue is GNOME bug 29087, online at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29087
I know that a major overhaul is scheduled for the file selection
widget soon... there was a session in the GNOME 2 summit a few
months ago on it, and I thought it was supposed to happen in time
for GTK+ 2.2. But since that has come and gone without a new
widget, I presume it has slipped back to 2.4.
In the meantime, my preferred approach is to do nothing, in expectation
that we will be able to take advantage of a new improved GTK+ widget
whenever it arrives.
(The current GTK+ widget isn't actually disastrous, even though it is
a bit clumsy, and certainly ugly and unobvious how to use it
effectively. The tab completion works pretty well, for instance.)
Cheers,
Gary.
--
Gary Wong address@hidden http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~gary/
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export, (continued)
Re: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export, Gary Wong, 2002/12/28
RE: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export, Albert Silver, 2002/12/28
Re: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export,
Gary Wong <=
Re: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export, Holger, 2002/12/31
Re: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export, Gary Wong, 2002/12/31