On Nov 13, 2007 2:16 PM, Mark Grice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, valid points. One thing I want to emphasize is that I am NOT > suggesting that GNUStep supports MDI. Lord forbid! > > I don't think that is necessary for widespread adoption (Mac seems to > have done OK without it :-) But a single horizontal menu bar seems to > be the accepted practice of all non-Redmond users, and the direction > of Cocoa. > > So.. maybe a good compromise would be dialog boxes and not widgets? I > can live with different widgets... (Maybe even some sort of a widget > editor where I can recreate the widgets used if I want to?) > > But dialog boxes are a prime example of what would be better if it > were native. For example: Ubuntu has Samba, which allows me to get to > the windows drives on my network. It also allows me to view thumbnails > of the graphic images. Their file dialog box supports these out of the > box... As a developer, it would be nice if my file chooser > automatically gave these kinds of options to my end users. I am > assuming that the native GNUStep does not, because when I run the > examples, I can neither see thumbnails of images, nor can I access my > SMB files... But that may be ignorance on my part...
Yes, file chooser should use the native one. For horizontal menus embedded in windows, there was a bundle providing that automatically, but it was kinda of a hack. I would prefer to let the developers create different nibs for different platforms, so that each could follow properly the platform guidelines.. -- Nicolas Roard _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
