Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> So the question boils down to: does the benefit of these buttons >>> overweights the benefit of native dialogs? > > Angus> Definitely. > > Is that a statement on the whole sentence, or an answer to the > question?
I *like* the buttons. I find them *very* useful. I'd like to see their continued existence. Does that provide you with a meaningful answer? >>> A solution may be to always use native dialogs on windows and osx, >>> and use the existing code for Qt/X11. > > Angus> A reduction in function for the sake of form? Is this a > comment Angus> on the philosophy underlying these OSes? > > Actually, these native filedialogs often have a widget to select > among recently used directories, or some kind of favorites. This > feature is very comparable to what we do. The only problem is that > we have no way to explicitely populate these widgets with the > directories we want. Are you describing a "Qt feature request"? ;-) What functionality is provided by gtk? -- Angus
