21 Dec
2004
21 Dec
'04
1:10 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:15:19 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
The only reason I agreed to the new file dialogs is that Ishmal restored the text input field that the Gnome folks removed in GTK 2.4. I agree that not having this field is an incredibly stupid limitation,
I guess I should re-iterate that the reason this was done is because the GNOME guys want to eliminate file paths from the UI a la MacOS Classic.
As anybody who has ever tried to explain what ~/ or /mnt/net/homes/d20xt3 is to a non-technical user can appreciate, hiding the UNIX filing system is probably wise ... whether it makes sense for Inkscape users though I have no idea. They are perhaps in a different demographic to what GNOME is targetting.
thanks -mike