Ten wrote:
Ian Bell wrote:
IMHO gtk file selection dialogs have always been crap. When deciding which gui toolkit for development work I initially chose gtk because it was written in C and I definitely did not want to learn C++. One of the reasons I abandoned it was the poor file dialogs.
Ian
It's been pretty important in shaping my opinion, that. Say what you like about kde/qt, but when it comes to file management in general, let alone the standard dialogs, they're years ahead - actually acknowledging the possibility that a GUI user may use a keyboard to drive things, may want to type in the path themselves including filters, find as they type, and so on.
I agree. the kde widget set has always been streets ahead of gtk in terms both of appearance and functionality. But no way am I going over to C++ just to use it.
Ian