Joachim Noreiko wrote:
[...]
> I requested last cycle for a help button to be put
> into the File Chooser dialog [1], and the general
> feeling I got back from the GTK people was that they
> didn't want a dependency on parts of the gnome desktop
> going in GTK.
Please bear in mind that when you propose something for inclusion
into gtk+ there is a very high bar to pass, (see the long discussion
attached to this seemingly simple patch [1] for example) a few things that
I think should be taken into consideration:
o When you propose something, and nobody is volunteering to actually
do the work - its a dead-end conversation that is going nowhere
(who wants to bother offering thier opinion even ?)
o GTK+ people are only interested in an ultimate solution that will live
out the long run - the api has to be perfect and it must function
nicely on all supported platforms - so what someone might have thought
was just a matter adding a button to a filechooser - will most definitly
turn into a philisophical discussion about "what kind of content" to put
in that help button, how the app will interact with that content, how it
will behave on multiple platforms etc... I would expect such a discussion
to last at /least/ a month before any code gets written.
IMO this is not a bad thing - this strong community criticism is exactly
what makes gtk+ good quality software in the first place.
I think the "They didnt like it in gtk+ so lets put it into our own lib"
approach might be good for a few people "right now" - but as I stated in
my other mail - personally I think that is of no value at all, if it didnt
get into gtk+ - there obviously a reason for it - there must be a long road
of work to do before the comminity is satisfied with the implementation.
Cheers,
-Tristan
[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345778
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