Re: GTK question (was Re: Gtk patch version 3, part 1)

[Jan D.]

> This talk of the file selector leads me to wonder - are you using the stock
> GTK file selector?  If so, doesn't that mean that EFS and friends will no
> longer be available?  Is that really desirable?

Are they available with the Motif/Lesstif file selector?

> When I did the XEmacs GTK work, I got a lot of complaints about this, and
> ended up implementing my own file selector in lisp that used the Emacs
> primitives for file access, so EFS/ange-ftp/URL could hook into it.

Don't that require the ability to create widgets from inside lisp?
I guess one could write a special lisp <-> C bridge just for the
file dialog.

I plan to replace the file dialog anyway, because it does not handle
files and directorynames correctly that aren't UTF-8.  In fact, if
you start Emacs in a directory that has some Latin-1 character in
it and bring up the file dialog, the file dialog will promptly exit
with a failed assertion.  The GTK people does not think this is a bug,
"convert all your files, tools and directories to UTF-8" is their solution.

Being in Europe, using Latin-1 alot, I can't just switch to UTF-8, so
the file dialog must change.  When I come around to it, I will consider
your strategy of doing a file dialog from lisp.  Sounds like a good idea
anyway, regardles of EFS.

> Just curious!

Good point to bring up,

        Jan D.