Hi, Alexander Rabtchevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sven, is it possible (in theory) to have several dialog types in > GIMP at the same time? OpenOffice under Windows allow using native > system openfile dialog or its own style dialog. A user can chhose it > in the preferences. Almost everything is (in theory) possible. The question is if it is feasible and the answer is no. We decorate the file chooser dialog quite a bit and that would not be possible (or rather not feasible) if it wasn't a well-defined dialog with a well-defined API. We don't have the resources to maintain a number of different file dialogs in GIMP (and all it's plug-ins). There are also a couple of features in the new file chooser that simply are not available in the old widget. We will for example want to introduce a virtual filesystem layer in future versions of GIMP. That would allow people to work directly with files on remote filesystems that are accessible over ssh, webdav, ftp, ... This has been requested every so often. The new filechooser supports this kind of stuff by means of the pluggable GtkFileSystem interface. We just need to extend GIMP and its file plug-ins so that they access files by means of a virtual filesystem layer. This could then be implemented for example using gnome-vfs but of course we would want to allow other implementations as well. All this won't work with the old file selection and it shows that your proposal is not feasible. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
