On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Trent Buck wrote:
Quoth Bryce Harrington on or about 2004-11-23:
The file dialog is actually the standard GNOME file dialog.
Which standard GNOME file dialog would that be? It seems to change with every release.
It's the standard for Gtk+ 2.4 as I understand. The reason seems to change with every release is that we've changed Gtk+ versions twice over the past few releases. Gtk+ went through a major change around 2.4.
I find the newer GNOME dialogs to be usable, iff you know about pressing Ctrl+L to get a type-in-the-path box. I DO miss the tab-completion; it became a combo-box some time ago.
I suspect we will probably stick with 2.4 for a little while. We've advanced precariously close to the bleeding edge by upgrading to Gtk+ 2.4, and this has led to a number of big concerns about dependencies. This is why we're putting effort into getting static binaries, for instance.
It's quite likely that Gtk+ 2.6 has a better file dialog. However we are not likely to upgrade to 2.6 in the immediate near term; it would be beneficial to get a better buffer between ourselves and the bleeding edge, so I'd like to see us hold off on Gtk+ 2.6 until perhaps Inkscape 0.42.
However, perhaps there are some alternative ways of allowing users to link to 2.6 through compile-time flags or something.
Bryce