language_fan wrote:
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:54:53 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier thusly wrote:
language_fan wrote:
I get an entirely different file dialog on win7, and my gnome dialog on
ubuntu looks nothing like the screenshot you linked.
This is the win7 dialog:
http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/Dd758094.Libraries_CommonFileDialog%28en-
us,VS.85%29.png
This is pretty good in my book.
This is close to what I have on ubuntu:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/wp-content/blogs.dir/26/files/2009/02/
file-dialog2.png
Yuck.
I have no Qt or KDE on both my linux installs (ubuntu 9 and a cross
linux from scratch), the GUI looks smooth and works great, using the
latest gnome 2.6 libraries.
Why don't you install GTK+? You can't whine about applications built for
gnome looking ugly if you don't have gtk installed, it can live pretty
well alongside Qt, I used to do that until i switched to gnome after 2.6
was released.
I have little desire to embrace inferior technologies. Attempting OOP on
C is ridiculous, it should be called POOP. It is a personal choice.
Besides FLTK2/Qt work pays well enough. I also have no time for desktop
environment wars, tyvm. GTK+ != Gnome, as you well might know. I simply
have no reason to install libgtk* since no package depends on them.
I don't know if you're talking about gtk 1 or 2, I don't have gtk1
installed but gtk2 is always one of the first package i build when I
create a linux from scratch, so many things depend on it.
I never had any issues using gnome without qt, yet I had plenty using
KDE without gtk. Its just a matter of what software you build, I usually
don't like the feel of KDE applications, its a matter of preferences there.
I agree that gnome being coded in C is plain ugly in the code, but the
results are still very convenient to use. Oh and I know gtk != gnome,
but its been a while since it left gimp to become part of the gnome set
of libraries.
