From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:35:51 +0200
Robert L Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't that at least enough reason to take a closer look at the > issue? Are you as well starting with this accusation now? We are taking a close look at this. We have already spent a lot of time on this, probably way more than we should. I have been contributing patches and suggestions to the file-chooser for quite a while now. This has turned the dialog into something that works rather well for me. Perhaps it is time that you start doing that as well. The context for this was: >Marc, it is you who's being idiotic here. You state that there are >a number of people. What number? How large is that number compared >to the number of happy users? We can hardly decide anything unless >we know the answer to these questions. You asked how many people were involved here. I went and looked at how many people have posted on precisely this issue, and posted my numbers. I've been contributing suggestions both here and on the bugzilla.gnome.org bug (whose number I forget). Yes, it's true that my suggestion boils down to "bring back the text entry box!" and not a whole lot else. Every time anyone here makes that suggestion you dismiss it with "You basically have no clue on how the new dialog works" or "I have already explained [how a text entry with completion would conflict with being able to use the file dialog's other features]" without really getting to the heart of the matter -- a lot of people just plain want a text entry box, because it's such a natural way to work (a filename, or pathname for that matter, is a text string, and people just want to be able to type it in a natural manner). The only reason why someone sensible would complain on this subject on the gimp-developer mailing list is that he/she wants to discuss the issue in the context of using the dialog from within GIMP. The goal of such a discussion should be to prepare a proposal or even patches in order to present them to the GTK+ developers. The only GTK2 app that I use on any kind of routine basis that uses this dialog is the GIMP. This has given me a good reason to do everything I can to avoid other GTK2 apps. -- Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
