Ok, well if emost people are happy then I'll go ahead, and do the job as neatly as I can. You probably won't see too much visible progress in a while, because I'm holiday for the next 2 weeks, and after that I have a contract which always seems to soak up most of my brain power, but I will have it on the back burner.

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From: "Joshua Blocher" <verbalshadow@...400...> Sent: 26 June 2007 16:16 To: joel@...1709... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Getting the GdkWindow in which a verb was invoked

Hi Joel,

On 6/27/07, joel@...1709... wrote:

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.

I would say that is the way windows works almost every app has a slightly different spin on what their apps open dialog looks and functions like. Sure most use the base open dialog as a base for their implementation but its still different, some even implement completely different looking and functioning ones, that's every version of office that i can remember and many other graphic apps.

Sorry, I'm not trying to discourage you. What you want to do will probably help the average windows user. I just want to make sure that we think carefully about the downside for multi-platform users and issues is may cause with helping users. We need to remember that this is a cross-platform program and that every bit of platform specific code may additional complexity of maintaining and supporting for the long term. Since Dev's seem to have blessed off on it with conditions, good luck.

Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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From: "Joshua Blocher" 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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