From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK file selector Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:09:45 +0100 Message-ID: <851x04u112.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200512220927.jBM9RHcE021048@coolsville.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135297222 18326 80.91.229.2 (23 Dec 2005 00:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, "Jan D." , ich@frank-schmitt.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 23 01:20:20 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpafS-0000cy-7v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:20:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpagT-00078M-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Epacr-0005jZ-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Epacp-0005ip-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:17:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Epaco-0005iG-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Epac1-000633-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:16:45 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EpabY-00036I-GQ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8FEF21C4F93E; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:09:45 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:20:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:48229 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > Yes it can be done. But is it really worthwhile for a dialog > that is not default in the first place, and that will probably > be gone from GTK soon? > > If it is so easy, why not do it? > > If the old file dialog works better, should we make it the default? I don't think so. The point of a toolkit is not to have applications behave differently. > We could also pressure for it not to be deleted. I think we should rather pressure for the new dialogue to become as useful as the old one. That's the really important thing. It is nonsense to have dumbed-down dialogs for one kind of application and others for a different kind. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum