Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

Michael L Torrie wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 08:53 +0100, Jernej Simončič wrote:
>   
> > On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:55:18 +1100, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Is anyone else equally frustrated?
> > >       
> > Many of us - the new open dialog caused me to start using Windows Exploder
> > again when I want to open files in GIMP, since it's just faster (and I know
> > of ^L dialog).
> >     
>
> Really under Windows, GTK ought to be using the win32 file selector
> instead of it's own one.  That's what users expect.
>   
I'm not so sure about this. I can understand people wanting to have the 
*option* of overriding the Gtk2 File Open dialog with a native windows 
one, but I personally prefer the Gtk2 dialog - apart from it currently 
now knowing about special locations such as 'My Documents', etc. 
Admittedly, I don't insist on using the keyboard, so I can't comment on 
how keyboard-friendly it is.

Having the Gtk2 dialog available on all platforms makes writing 
cross-platform apps a lot easier. It just means I don't have to be as 
paranoid about testing everything on every platform.

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