Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> > Yes I noticed this too but I don't follow your argumentation that it's
> > bad dialog design. IMO the internal emacs API is insufficient here.
> > There should be a way to distinguish between opening and saving and
> > mustmatch_p simply is not enough information here.
> 
> Well, you could argue that, and in fact this seems to be the attitude
> of most Gnome/GTK developers.  The applications needs fixing, not the
> toolkit.  It is a bit like you said earlier, "you are simply missing
> icons".
> For most users the correct statement is "GtkFileChooser is missing icons
> and this embarrasing bug has not been fixed until GTK 2.4.4".

Note that the icon problem is just a misconfiguration on your part (or
rather whoever installed gtk+ on your system). Nevertheless it has
been addressed in gtk+ 2.4.4 which clearly shows that the GTK+
developers don't ignore complaints.

I admit that the new file chooser API doesn't really fit into the
emacs use case but then it seems that it fits for (almost) all other
applications. This seems to indicate that the emacs use case is rather
obscure. Anyway, if you want this to be fixed, you will need to file a
bug-report at bugzilla.gnome.org.  Otherwise the issue will never be
addressed and I don't think that it is an option for emacs to stick to
GtkFileSelection in the long run.
 

Sven