Hi, On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 13:03 +0100, peter sikking wrote: > this is really small fry. the stuff you find in the appendix > of a usability test or expert evaluation report. for instance > 2 orders of magnitude more serious is gtk's (?) insistence to > show gnome file dialogs on non-gnome UI platforms. If GTK+ wouldn't do that, then we would have to drop support for other platforms and concentrate on just GNOME. We definitely don't have enough resources to support native dialogs on all platforms. That would be a maintenance nightmare. Look at the Print dialog as an example of why wrapping native dialogs in a cross-platform toolkit doesn't work well. GTK+ provides an abstraction for the platform native Print dialog. From an application developer point of view, this is a complete mess. We have tons of problems with this dialog that we can't solve as they are platform specific. Now you are asking for the same mess for the file-chooser, no thanks. If we had lots of active developers on all platforms, that would change things. But that is not the case, so we will have to make the best out of the cross-platform solution that GTK+ provides. I also know that many GIMP users use GIMP on several platforms (for example Linux at home and Windows at work). These users appreciate that the behavior is pretty much independent from the platform. Of course for other users this makes it more difficult. The GTK+ people are trying hard to integrate their file-chooser better with the underlying platform. GTK+ 2.16 improves this situation again. Also GIMP tries to integrate well with the native file-browser. This means that users can often avoid using the GTK+ file-chooser dialog if they dislike its behavior. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
