Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget

[Jan D.]

> Note that the icon problem is just a misconfiguration on your part (or
> rather whoever installed gtk+ on your system).

It is hard to configure correctly when there is no documentation that
states that an icon theme is needed for the file chooser to have basic
functionality.  I have not seen any such documentation.

> 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.

The two most used editors allow opening of non-existant file names:
% vi non-existant-file
% emacs non-existant-file

or inside vi:

:e non-existent-file

or inside emacs:

C-x C-f non-existant-file

This is one of the oldest and probably most common command in these 
editors,
I would not call that "obscure".  But I don't think this is a relevant
discussion for this list.  Adding GtkFileChooser is not a priority 
right now,
but it will probably be done in the future, as the old file dialog is
removed from GTK.

        Jan D.