This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
GTK 2.4.0 Released
Related Links Top of the: day, week, month.
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
How long? (Score:5, Interesting)
Just in time for... (Score:5, Interesting)
file selector (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Separate windows are fine (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:So.. (Score:0, Interesting)
[karma burn]
What exactly was wrong with libc5 that glib had to come along and fark up things anyway?
[/karma burn]
Glade2 (Score:3, Interesting)
How is Glade2 development coming along in terms of supporting Gtk2 2.4? I visited their website [gnome.org] and there doesn't seem to be any mention of it.
Re:So.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:New File Dialog (Score:3, Interesting)
Please tell me that isn't really the `new file selector'.
The old selector was pretty basic, but also pretty straight-forward, and super-fast to use with the keyboard because of the great completion functionality.
This new dialog is not only much more confusing looking, but seems bloated, rather ugly, and doesn't have the text entry box -- i.e, they removed the one great feature they used to have!
I know they're attempting to appeal to inexperienced users, but they always seem to (1) do so in a way that pisses off experienced users, and (2) botch things up in the inexperienced-user case anyway.
Hopefully someone will come up with a less crappy file-selector and all the major distros (at least debian) will use it.
Re:New File Dialog (Score:3, Interesting)
To be honest, however, from what I've gathered the GNOME people have been far more influenced by Apple than KDE.
And finally - when you come down to it, it's a file selector, there;s not a whole lot innovative you can do with it. The KDE file selector doesn't look overly different from the Windows one, so really, is it any surprise that GNOME follows a vaguely similar line?
Jedidiah.
Re:How long? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:How long? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Separate windows are fine (Score:2, Interesting)
> KDE (metacity and kwin) not implementing something like this
Not sure about kwin, but the official metacity project slogan is "no features"
(apparently). A lot of Gnome users swap it out for a different window manager
such as sawfish or Enlightenment. Fortunately, the architecture of Gnome makes
this possible (though the wm in question has to support certain Gnome things
to get everything working properly (e.g., the panel task list, having certain
panels be avoided by maximize, and so on), which does limit exactly which
window managers you can choose; you can _theoretically_ choose any wm, but
if you choose one that doesn't support Gnome stuff won't work; sawfish and
Enlightenment are the major alternatives that handle Gnome stuff right, that
I know about; there may be one or two others).
Re:New File Dialog (Score:3, Interesting)
That rules, and it's about time. This means you can say file open, and then select a smb:// share
A while ago I was working on a gnome-vfs module that added support for itunes shares. This would mean that you could use xmms (assuming it ever gets updated for 2.0) and browse and play songs shared in itunes.
Now I think I've got some incentive to finish that module.
Re:Just in time for... (Score:3, Interesting)
Compared to what? TT Text fonts with Xft are certainly much easier on the eyes under linux/gtk/x11/gnome than they are under Windows XP.
Your sig (Score:3, Interesting)