Re: [Bug-gnubg] PNG Export

[Holger]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:59:09 -0500, Gary Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:41:09PM +0100, Holger wrote:
> > As for improving the limited GTK+ file dialogue: Why not use the
> > standard one on Windows?
> 
> I expect we could (if somebody were to write and support it)... and
> KDE people would also want gnubg to use a Qt widget, and Motif people
> would want a Motif widget, and Mac OS X people would want Apple's
> dialogue, and they would also want native printing support, nicer
> integration with their platform's window manager(s), and so on;
> there's no end of things we could do to satisfy certain groups of
> users without improving gnubg at all on the platforms which GNU
> software is aimed at.

OK, you certainly have a good point here. And it would definitely be
best to have a competitive file selection dialogue in GTK+. But as you
write below it's not a GNUbg issue, and it's certainly quite some
work.
Actually, only because of this and that there seemed to be (quite
some) demand I suggested this IMHO cheap solution. Also someone said
here recently that the majority of GNUbg users are/will be Windows
users, intended or not. So it could remain one (or few) exception for
the majority.
However, I respect your argumentation anyway.

> Improving the GTK+ file selection dialogue would certainly be useful
> on many platforms (including the GNU system), but it's not really our
> job.  If anybody would like to direct effort in this direction, I
> think they will be best off co-ordinating with the GTK+ people --
> enhancing the dialogue is GNOME bug 29087, online at:
> 
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29087
> 
> I know that a major overhaul is scheduled for the file selection
> widget soon... there was a session in the GNOME 2 summit a few
> months ago on it, and I thought it was supposed to happen in time
> for GTK+ 2.2.  But since that has come and gone without a new
> widget, I presume it has slipped back to 2.4.
> 
> In the meantime, my preferred approach is to do nothing, in expectation
> that we will be able to take advantage of a new improved GTK+ widget
> whenever it arrives.
> 
> (The current GTK+ widget isn't actually disastrous, even though it is
> a bit clumsy, and certainly ugly and unobvious how to use it
> effectively.  The tab completion works pretty well, for instance.)

But sorting on different things than filenames, details on files, and
so on would be really nice, not to mention a kind of preview.

Regards and a Happy New Year,

        Holger