Re: [Gimp-developer] Dialog layouts in 2.2pre1

2004-11-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Keith Goatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried the lastest snapshot and the differences are minor. It seems bizarre that an additional keypress is necessary to bring up the text dialog box. With GTK+ HEAD you should almost always get away without using the text dialog box, as you

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dialog layouts in 2.2pre1

2004-11-10 Thread Keith Goatman
Sven Neumann wrote: With GTK+ HEAD you should almost always get away without using the text dialog box, as you call it, because the file chooser supports typeahead. Granted, but it still doesn't support handy wildcards like the former dialog did. Keith

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dialog layouts in 2.2pre1

2004-11-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Keith Goatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Neumann wrote: With GTK+ HEAD you should almost always get away without using the text dialog box, as you call it, because the file chooser supports typeahead. Granted, but it still doesn't support handy wildcards like the former dialog did.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dialog layouts in 2.2pre1

2004-11-08 Thread Laxminarayan Ammembal Kamath
...If you are talking about the file-chooser then the answer is that it would not be feasible to do this. The APIs of the two widgets differ. It's not a matter of look and feel. It's a completely rewritten widget with a completely different API and lots of different functionality. Also I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dialog layouts in 2.2pre1

2004-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Laxminarayan Ammembal Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't yet checked out 2.2, i hope i soon will. But any way i have this idea, i think i must post to the gtk team. Yet i am posting it here too, if GIMP can temporarily achieve at implementing this idea. What about a button on

[Gimp-developer] Dialog layouts in 2.2pre1

2004-11-05 Thread Keith Goatman
Hi, I have used the development version for some time now and there are many improvements which I really appreciate. However, I have a couple of questions about two of the dialogs which have changed. 1. What is the advantage of the new file selection dialog? I find it much more difficult to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dialog layouts in 2.2pre1

2004-11-05 Thread Keith Goatman
Sven Neumann wrote: Despite the fact that it has a sane API (which the old widgets didn't have), it also has a number of useability improvements like bookmarks, mime-type icons and the ability to mount volumes. It also features a Win32 backend and in the future it will allow GIMP to work on remote

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dialog layouts in 2.2pre1

2004-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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