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Ian bell ianbell@ukfsn.org wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Personally, I get really frustrated with the file dialogs in GTK2, but I live with it, as the only app that I used that has these things is firefox, and 99% of the time if I want to download stuff from firefox I right click, copy url and use wget in a terminal.
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.
GTK2's file dialogs are (programmatically) a lot better than GTKs, personally I don't think I've found a single file selection dialog box that I actually like. I chose GTK origionally because it was one of the better looking toolkits, and there were bindings for multiple languages (gtkmm was always nice for C++ development). That and it appeared to have potential. That was *way* back before Gnome got their hands on it, when it was the origional GTK, back when it stood for GIMP Tool Kit. (Yes, they invented it, that's it's origional purpose, go look round the web if you don't believe me ;)
It appears that I'm wrong in firefox's case, of course they don't use GTK, they use their own toolkit. But I've failed to find the Desktop link other than in the default saveas options, which is easily changed (and actually appears to default to ~ even though it says "Desktop", which is a folder name. Freaked out by this, I am!).
Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk