Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
[...]
> Either are those Windows people different species and think
> and feel in ways incomprehensible to us (and I am not
> convinced of this), or the problem lies somewhere else.  More
> likely, they are confronted with free software in situations
> that invoke their withdrawal reflex and make them complain
> about just anything complainable, that is paricularly any
> obvious difference.

Yes ! my sentiments exactly.

Michael L Torrie wrote:
> Really under Windows, GTK ought to be using the win32 file selector
> instead of it's own one.  That's what users expect.

Is it really ok for users to expect that ?

Will they continue expecting that when they install there very own
free GNU/Linux system with a GNOME desktop and toolkit ?

I think that everyone on this thread has great ideas about
usability and everything... lets all get together and make
GTK+'s file chooser the most kickass file chooser ever !

I can see it now... windows users will demand that applications
be ported to GTK+ just so they can use the kickass file chooser...
and then who knows ?

Cheers,
                      -Tristan