Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature request: Improve the Open file dialog thumbnails

[Jon Nordby <jononor gmail com>]

On 18 May 2012 11:18, Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:59 PM, gfxuser <gfx user online de> wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't say that. On Windows 7 the native 'open file' dialog contains
>> different views: list, details, symbols in various sizes, tiles.
>
> This is exactly what I was referring to.
>
> There's no need to sit down and create a patch for GTK+ which GTK+
> team probably doesn't even want, when you could use native dialogs.
> Personally I've no special opinion on native vs. GTK+ dialogs on
> Windows. As a non-Windows user I'm fine with both :)

Please fix GTK+ instead of using some platforms native dialog in GIMP.
That way it will work for all GTK+ based applications and on all
operating systems supported by GTK+. Remember also that GtkFileChooser
is the native dialog for GNOME (and XFCE).

Some work was done recently, but never ended up in mainline.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154

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