Hi Joshua,
Yes I can see how you would loose out - I quite understand. Although I do think we need to think about the needs of more common Windows users. You use one application on several platforms, wheras most people use one platform and several applications, so we really need to optimise consistency on a per-platform basis, not on a per-app basis; simply to satisfy the expectations of the users. The aim here is to reduce the number of different-functioning dialogs that the user of any given platform has to learn and understand.
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From: "Joshua Blocher" <verbalshadow@...400...> Sent: 26 June 2007 15:02 To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Getting the GdkWindow in which a verb was invoked
I'm personnelly for keeping the current gtk dialog, i use both windows and linux and I simply expect inkscape to provide the same functionality and work in the same way (where possible) on both platforms. This provides maximum usability for multi-platform users and reduces the need to know the platform specifics when helping other users. I'm not against making things more "usable" for windows users, so i feel that IF need that a gtk dialog made to look like office 2003 open dialog ( what tobias suggested) is probably the best half way point. It offers bookmarking and previews. It still wouldn't function and work in exactly the same way but at least it would still be there.
Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow
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