I think that at the moment there is no nice way for the user to choose an application. GTK has a dialog for selecting files so why not add a dialog to GTK for selecting an application? Some application allow the user to fill in the command of a program or also have a "Browse..." button which will show a file selection dialog for browsing for a binary. But that "Browse..." button is a MS Windows solution. For those who have never worked with MS Windows: it has a very user unfriendly application menu, which in short is a mess. So that is why MS Windows uses the browse button. On the free desktop however we have a very nice standardized system for building a (categorized) application menu, so that is not hard for the user to start an application. However this nice standard is currently only used for such a menu. So my idea is to use the application tree, that is used for the app menu, for the "application selection dialog". I have implemented such a dialog in my application keyTouch. For a screenshot of it go to: http://keytouch.sf.net/screenshots.php . It would be nice if such a dialog could be part of GTK and that the user will be able to select applications by the free desktop way instead of the MS Windows way.
Regards, Marvin Raaijmakers _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list