On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:45 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Michael L Torrie wrote: > > Really under Windows, GTK ought to be using the win32 file selector > > instead of it's own one. That's what users expect. > > Is it really ok for users to expect that ? Yes. Any other assumption is silly. We're talking about writing windows programs for windows. The fact that we have the WIMP theme trying to make GTK look like a real windows gui toolkit indicates that this has been the desire all along. > > Will they continue expecting that when they install there very own > free GNU/Linux system with a GNOME desktop and toolkit ? The migration argument is bogus in this case. I doubt 99% of GTK on Windows users really care about this, except that really migration is simply about having the same apps available on multiple platforms. > > I think that everyone on this thread has great ideas about > usability and everything... lets all get together and make > GTK+'s file chooser the most kickass file chooser ever ! > > I can see it now... windows users will demand that applications > be ported to GTK+ just so they can use the kickass file chooser... > and then who knows ? That would be great. > > Cheers, > -Tristan > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
