On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:02 PM, bulia byak wrote:
On 3/29/07, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...204...> wrote:
It's not obsolete in exactly the same way that adding a keyboard shortcut for some action does not make a menu item and tool button for the same action obsolete.
I can understand the desire to keep a button or shortcut for an action. But dialog is a whole different thing. Getting rid of another dialog is a huge win, if only because of the atrocious way GTK handles them. It will also consolidate our code, get rid of tons of ancient kludges, and close a boatload of bugs and RFEs as no longer relevant.
Come on - if no one improved the dialog thus far, chances that someone will work on it now, with much more convenient way of doing the same on canvas, are virtually zero.
I think, then, that I will be happy with killing it as long as we keep in mind that later one might add in a new panel to server the same function.
I probably won't touch it until I start using gradients more, so keeping the legacy code around would probably qualify as dead weight.
Also... if the old dialog goes away and there are people who work better with other than the new on-canvas control, we can get better feedback on the design needed to replace it.