Re: The GTK+ file chooser

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 16 May 2009, Morten Welinder wrote:

> > IMO this is now pretty much of a non-issue, since the current
> > GTK file selection dialog is sufficiently like Windows (but
> > nicer!).
>
> I'm not sure what planet you're living on.  The current gtk+
> file chooser absolutely stinks!  It fails miserably in its
> primary task: showing the user what files are there in
> order to let the user pick one.
>
> In particular is it very, very bad at managing its screen real
> estate.  See
>
> http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2009/01/21/the-gtk-file-chooser-dialog/
> http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2009/02/23/the-gtk-file-chooser-dialog-take-ii/

Planet sane.  I use a couple of Linux boxes, one running
hand-rolled Linux and one running Ubuntu.  I've never seen
anything remotely resembling the broken GTK file dialogs you show
from SuSE.

Allin Cottrell