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From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Cc: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>, "Jérôme Marant" <jmarant@free.fr>
Subject: Re: GTK file selector
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:00:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512170000.34354.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oe3g7qgv.fsf@marant.org>

Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> 
> > Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >
> >> I'm ashamed I have to ask such simple questions but the previous file
> >> selector was much more intuitive.
> >
> > You are not alone in thinking that.  The GTK 2 file chooser has always
> > been controversial, but it is quite like the Mac OSX one
> > (functionality wise).  The problem is that features like this are more
> > or less hidden to a user who don't hang around mailing lists like this
> > :-)
> 
> BTW, I noticed that Firefox, which is linked against the same gtk version
> as Emacs on my system, uses a different file selector. It looks like the
> previous one, if I recall correctly. Is the old file selector still
> around in the current gtk? Or maybe did they re-code it?

No, it is a completely different file chooser (just checked, at least in
1.0), I guess it is the same in all/most Firefox variants, regardless of
backend.  BTW, Firefox GUI, in my opinion, is generally much worse than
that of GNOME/GTK+ standards-conforming applications, e.g. font selection
is atrocious.

Old GTK+ file selector is deprecated but not removed (probably not until
GTK+ 3.0 or something), see GtkFileSelection widget.

I ranted on GTK+ mailing list about the new file chooser too.  It was
pretty unusable in 2.4, but in 2.6 it is already quite good, though I
still like the old one a little better in terms of keyboard usability.
However, I agree with GTK+ developers that for a common user the new
file chooser is much more convenient and intuitive.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-14  9:27 GTK file selector Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 14:06 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-14 14:38   ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 19:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-14 20:33       ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 20:00     ` Jan Djärv
2005-12-16 20:10       ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-16 20:16         ` Jan Djärv
2005-12-16 20:28           ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-16 22:00         ` Paul Pogonyshev [this message]
2005-12-14 15:25 ` Mario Domenech Goulart
2005-12-14 20:30   ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 15:28 ` Frank Schmitt
2005-12-15  9:00   ` Stephen Berman
2005-12-16  1:52     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-15 12:59   ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-15 15:52     ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-16  7:56       ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-16 11:38         ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-16 12:49           ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-16 15:40             ` Romain Francoise
2005-12-17 10:44               ` Kaloian Doganov
2005-12-17 15:16                 ` Romain Francoise
2005-12-16 16:27             ` Kim F. Storm
2005-12-16 20:54             ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-16 20:08           ` Nick Roberts
2005-12-16 22:23             ` David Kastrup
2005-12-16 23:23               ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-16 23:38                 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-17 13:05                   ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-17 15:22                     ` David Kastrup
2005-12-17 22:21                       ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18  0:38                         ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 11:07                           ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 12:56                       ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-18 13:40                         ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 17:37                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-12-18 17:57                             ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 20:37                         ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-18 22:36                           ` Miles Bader
2005-12-18 23:33                             ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-19 14:07                             ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-19  1:41                           ` Tom Tromey
2005-12-19  2:26                             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-12-19  5:33                               ` Tom Tromey
2005-12-18 22:33                         ` Miles Bader
2005-12-17 15:27                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-17 22:02               ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 20:59                 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-22 15:26                 ` Lőrentey Károly
2005-12-17 16:22             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-12-18  5:24               ` Nick Roberts
2005-12-18 10:25                 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 12:23                   ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 12:47                     ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 12:57                       ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 12:14                 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 14:47                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-12-18 15:07                   ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 19:26                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-19  4:38                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-17 16:52           ` Nikita Danilov
2005-12-16 20:13     ` Jan Djärv
2005-12-17 10:57       ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-18 17:02         ` Jan D.
2005-12-19  4:40           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-19 23:18             ` Jan D.
2005-12-20  0:36               ` Jan D.
2005-12-20 16:33                 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20 19:21                   ` Jan D.
2005-12-21  5:30                     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-22  9:27                       ` Jan D.
2005-12-22 22:20                         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-23  0:09                           ` David Kastrup
2005-12-23 11:38                           ` Jan D.
2005-12-23 18:09                             ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-24 20:29                               ` Jan D.
2005-12-25 19:06                                 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-27 10:47                                   ` Jan D.
2005-12-27 13:31                                     ` Jan D.
2005-12-27 16:42                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-28 10:50                                         ` Jan D.
2005-12-20  5:32               ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20  6:35                 ` Jan D.
2005-12-21  2:58                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-19 23:45             ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-17 13:06       ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 16:18 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-14 21:23   ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 16:20 ` Emfox Zhou
2005-12-15  2:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-16 20:05   ` Jérôme Marant
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-16 18:53 Pierre-Charles David
2005-12-17 10:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-18 17:02   ` Jan D.

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