Hi, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I must respectfully disagree, as a GIMP user, I am most definitely > interested in the reason for the change. It may be that I am a > developer as well, that prompts me to want to know, but the bottom > line is, any time a change is made that seems to be less intuitive > (to me), I'm going to wonder and inquire why the change was made. Well, the answer has been given here multiple times already. You did read the relevant threads that have been linked from this thread as well as the design spec that I mentioned yesterday? The answer is in their. So much for the reasoning behind the design of the GtkFileChooser. The reasons for us to switch to the new widget are that one of the major complaints about GIMP 1.2 and GIMP 2.0 was the horrible file selection dialog. The horrible API of the old widget is another reason to abandon it. We believe that the new dialog is an improvement. It works more like what people are used to from other desktop environments and due to the modular nature of the underlying GtkFileSystem it also (potentially) integrates better with whatever desktop you are using. There are a couple of issues with the new dialog but certainly less than there have been with the old one. Some of these issues can and will be fixed in GIMP (for example automatic preview generation), others can (and perhaps will) be fixed at the GTK+ level. Whether the GTK+ developers decide to accept any changes largely depends on the way that they are addressed. Constant bitching will make it very unlikely that any volunteer will want to spend time on this. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
