Hi Claes, On Saturday 08 August 2009 02:53:19 pm Claes Backstrom wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Rajko M.
wrote: I don't think that anybody will complain to have KDE style file chooser dialogs in both, KDE and GNOME
So far I have not said anything about this. But now I have to (and this mail made me to vote "No" on openFATE).
Well, I have mixed KDE/GTk interface. The nature of the choice for KDE as desktop, brings user benefit to learn GTk UI for free :-) No desktop per se is the best choice. There are and will be always applications that are better then DE native. The general idea is that it would be better to use better of both worlds. I would have nothing against GNOMEifing KDE desktop if that would be the better solution at the end, and I would rather have long discussions on particular issues, instead GNOME vs. KDE. First can help everybody and it is possible to solve, while the second is typical politics, opinions without details.
I choose to use Gnome because I like Gnome. I DO NOT use Gnome to have the KDE style file chooser. We might have KDE as the default desktop (in the future) , but that should not mean that we should start to KDE'ify Gnome. If YOU would like a KDE file chooser in firefox then you have to make one, to my understanding the reason that the file chooser in firefox is the way it is, is because there is no other on linux.
It is merely there is no other in GTk. and for SUSE in particular there was one, but it was dropped.
It would not be a problem in openSUSE to handle two different file choosers in firefox.
It is problem for me to handle that, and the Novell staff has no time allotted for that, so the problem is who is going to do that.
Warm Regards (but not as warm as it usually is), Claes Backstrom
GTk file chooser was once a good one, but then someone found time to tune up the interface and that made my life harder. I can't remember the old one in details, but I remember that difference was merely aesthetic one, while now with hidden functionality that you can use only if you know that is there, or by accident start typing something, it missed the main reason for GUI, ie. self advertising of functionality. What makes me not happy when I use Firefox is the print-to-file-dialog. I print to file often and clickety-click to change defaults is really step back to the previously used. I have to change file name, file type, target directory, every time. It is not using last user choices, even within the same session and the same web page. I bet they have viable explanation, but whatever it is, it doesn't help me much to feel better. -- Regards, Rajko (the same feelings as before) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org