That's only your opinion, I find them wonderful as do many other GNOME users.Originally Posted by hpv
That's only your opinion, I find them wonderful as do many other GNOME users.Originally Posted by hpv
Which acconts for what? Maybe 10% of Linux users and 0% of users who might at some point migrate to Linux?Originally Posted by Artis
Switching to gtk2 dialogs is mistake far too many other applications have made and it's an unnecessary barrier to adaption even among users currently using Linux. Xara would be making a huge mistake to adopt it, which they seem to be doing.
You can see what file dialogs it uses, by downloading and trying. Select the Open button or menu. We go via WxWidgets which I would presume uses whatever is the OS standard file dialogs for the appropriate platform. To my untrained eyes it looks as if it uses standard Gnome file dialogs on Gnome and standard KDE ones on KDE (and of course Windows and Mac ones on those platforms).
It's gnome dialogs in KDE.Originally Posted by Charles Moir
It's GNOME (or more accurately GTK) dialogs when compiling against wxWidgets WXGTK, MSW dialogs when compiling against wxWidgets WXMSW, Mac dialogs when compiling against wxWidgets WXMAC. You get the idea. If there was a WXQT (which there isn't, due to QT licensing problems) and we compiled against that, you'd get a KDE (or more accurately QT) file-open dialog. If you run the GTK app under KDE, the dialogs look like any other GTK app does running under KDE.Originally Posted by hpv
I'm sure the wxWidgets folks would be interested in patches to improve KDE friendliness provided there are no licensing issue involved.
Alex
Which licensing problems are those? Is wxWidgets LGPL or something? That still wouldn't stop them from releasing a WXQT under GPL. gnome file dialogs are a huge turn off for any app though, and the whole gnome philosophy is kind of hurting the Linux desktop across the board. And I really hate to see more applications, especially ones with graphics apps that are almost universally gtk on Linux.Originally Posted by abligh
Last edited by hpv; 24 March 2006 at 08:21 PM.
wxWindows license version 3. LGPL with 3 exceptions, mainly for allowing binaries to be distributed without the demand to provide wx with it if it's unchanged, iirc. The other exceptions are backing that up. The license can be consulted directly.Originally Posted by hpv
One thing that this means is that we can't put LGPL code in - it would violate their license due to wxWidgets having that exception.
No, it wouldn't. Lack of manpower does. The license concerns can be alleviated through using a different source repository, or strict separation in directories.Originally Posted by hpv
That is a matter of opinion. For example I believe the same negative things to be true for KDE, and completely wrong for GNOME and GTK+. This is not the place to express such opinions.Originally Posted by hpv
The file dialog concerns are nonsense. They are fixed in GTK+-2.10, and the new dialog was introduced in 2.4. You really don't want to see what it was looking like pre-2.4. That's why wxGTK uses its own generic file dialog if gtk runtime version is not 2.4 or newer - it's considered so much more worse. GTK+-2.8 has it nice, 2.10 will have the location entry in the dialog, not behind a popup box, and will save settings, and not block on networked bookmarks, and other nice things.
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