I am now beginning to understand things here. Maybe as Alex pointed out, we wait for GTK+3 port. Thanx. Joseph On 30 October 2014 11:27, Boudewijn Rempt <boud@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > 30 окт. 2014 г. 3:32 пользователь "Joseph Bupe" <joseph.bupe@xxxxxxxxx> >> написал: >> >>> >>> Hi developers, >>> >>> I would love to see the GIMP open file explorer updated to allow multiple >>> thumbnail view; unlike the current explorer where I have to know the name >>> of the file and click it to view it's thumbnail. >>> >> >> Joseph, >> >> As Michael pointed out, this isn't exactly GIMP's file explorer. So your >> request, while understandable, is somewhat misplaced. >> >> > Just a little background from the way Krita is wrestling with file > dialogs... Qt supports using the platform file dialogs, actually using the > GTK file dialog (not a rewritten look-alike) on Gnome, Unity or Mate, the > OSX one on OSX, the Windows one on Windows, the KDE one on KDE, using two > different api's. And a Qt one when Qt cannot figure out where the > applicatiion is running. > > This means having eight different sets of bugs and missing features, > ranging from weird hangs when the application has something on the > clipboard and the GTK file dialog opens, to the OSX file dialog selecting > the wrong file type in the type dropdown if there are file types with more > than one standard extensions. > > We might have previews on some platforms, but we also have pain on most. I > must have spent more than forty hours fighting those issues, for very > little real gain. If I were a user, I'd use an application like gwenview or > the platform equivalent on a second monitor to manage my images and D&D the > images. > > Boudewijn > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp- > developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > -- D/Insp. BUPE Joseph *Data Protection Officer, INTERPOL NCB Lusaka* *Zambia Police Service Headquarters,* *Criminal Investigation Department,**P.O. Box 50104, Lusaka* *Zambia* *Officer Phone/Fax*: + 260 211 255218 _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
