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Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget
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Jan D. |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:19:54 +0200 |
am sorry but how could they have tested with emacs? It's certainly
not the job of the toolkit developers to test new widgets with all
possible applications. It is the job of the application developers to
follow toolkit development, to try early development releases and to
give feedback. You mean you didn't do that? Because otherwise you
could have told them about the problems you see with the current API.
There where so many problems in porting Emacs to GTK at the time so
I did not try out any GTK prereleases, sorry. However, it did not
occur to
me that a new file dialog would be so much worse. I did file bug
reports on the old.
Anyway, it's not too late; you can still ask for a new API that works
better with the emacs use case. I am not really sure what API you
would need so it would be better if one of the emacs developers
brought this up. If you file a bug-report, please add me to the Cc:
Basically what everybody has been saying from day one: Add a text input
field when opening new files so the Ctrl-L thing is not needed. I am
sure
that the developers already know that lots of people want this.
Basically you can do four things with files that involves a file dialog,
1. open an existing file
2. open a new (non existant) file
3. save to an existing file
4. save to a new file
1, 3 and 4 is handeled by GtkFileChooser, but 2 is done poorly, it
requires
hitting Ctrl-L and getting another dialog that has its own problems.
This
is where the bad design is. It seems as this case was forgotten
entirely
even if it is a very common operation in editors like Emacs and Vi.
Jan D.
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Jan D., 2004/07/19
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Sven Neumann, 2004/07/19
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/07/20
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Sven Neumann, 2004/07/20
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget,
Jan D. <=
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Sven Neumann, 2004/07/20
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Jan D., 2004/07/20
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/07/20
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/22
- Re: [PATCH] emacs should use GtkFileChooser widget, Jan D., 2004/07/23