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Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:10:43PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:07:29PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
This is where we differ/misunderstand. What I'm saying is that GUI is *not* the same as DeskTop. There are lots of other ways of approaching a GUI way of using a computer than the pseudo-office one.
Agreed. But you seemed to be claiming it was forced upon you.
It was, by Firefox, instead of a proper directory selection I got:-
Home Desktop FileysystemNo - no one is forcing you to use Firefox, are they? Are they holding you at gunpoint and saying "use firefox or die, bitch"?
But the change is not in Firefox, it's in an underlying almost universally used library, whatever software one uses this paradigm is likely to be forced on you whether you like it or not.
... and I was also saying that it indicates a trend that I'm not happy with, yes, I may be able to avoid it but it becomes more difficult.
Right - it's the gtk2 library - so, what distribution do you use? If you ask us nicely maybe we'll recompile you a package without the offensive desktop option. Of course, that assumes that you trust us as much as your favoured distribution. Alternatively, YOU COULD GET THE SOURCE AND DO IT YOURSELF.
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.
YMMV. - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk