On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:47:53AM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:02:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
It's actually pretty hard to avoid that disaster zone dialogue: Firefox-based browsers and Gimp being the two hardest things to replace that I can think of. At least browsers don't open file dialogues too often, especially if you can configure your file manager to -remote it and you tell it to always save to a downloads dir.
Or am I missing some tricks to build Iceweasel and Gimp against another toolkit?
For firefox (so I presume Iceweasel too) go to "about:config" configure "ui.allow_platform_file_picker" to be false. Now your file dialogues should not be the dialogue that everyone complains about, it should revert to the XUL dialogue now everyone who keep whining about this "bug" can get on with life, it should be possible to configure your firefox with similar methods to use other file selectors dialogues such as those in KDE.
Excellent, thank you!
It took me 3 minutes with an internet search engine tofind the answer test it and write this mail.
You probably had a good idea what you were looking for though, if I had realised there was an about:config option to set the file picker dialogue I could probably have found it.
As for gimp i'd think it
unlikely that you can not build against gtk ;)
There are too many logical steps in that sentence for my poor little mind.
I'm getting bored of people asking questions or complaining about software "problems" when the "problem" isn't the software at all, just that it is their inability to use the internet to research problems and get the answer themselves. That was the basis of my original rant.
Er, um, this mailing list *is* the internet (well, part of it) and it's *one* of the ways that I use to ask and answer questions. However as I said before I think it's also a perfectly reasonable place to voice one's opinions, it's a place to chat as well as just for questions.
Whatever, thank you very much for the solution. :-)