Re: Proposed: evolution

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 16:02 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:44 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > (sorry for the delay, our email was buggered yesterday)
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:04 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: 
> > > A long list of special waivers? Thus far it's:
> > > 
> > >   * Evolution does not use the GTK+ 2.4 FileChooser, but the developers have
> > >     noted that they are 100% willing to take a nicely #ifdefed patch before
> > >     the 2.8 release.
> > 
> > We have Carlos' patch for this and it will be in during the next day or
> > two.  We do use GnomeFileEntry however, which is not deprecated and does
> > not use the new file selector afaict.
> 
> IIRC there's a property that can be set per GnomeFileEntry to get it to
> use the GtkFileChooser; the patch I've been using in Fedora Rawhide
> fixes some of these; I'll send these upstream to evolution-patches after
> Carlos' patch goes in.

I stand corrected, I actually started looking at making a patch and
realized what the code is doing.  A little surprising, but it makes
sense if you want older apps to use the old file selector.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
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