Re: Questions about a unified API for file choosers (and platform/toolkit integration)
Roman Hargrave <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:21:05 +0200 Ingo Ruhnke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > or resort to a separate dialog before/after the file picker, > > Gimp does that when you export an image. In the file dialog you just > select the format and the filename and in a dialog shown after you hit > "Export" you get to chose file type specific settings (compression, > interlacing, gamma, etc.). Works pretty well. > > Also let's not 'perfect be the enemy of good', just because a solution > wouldn't work every time, doesn't mean it couldn't work most of the > time. File dialogs are really not that different in most applications > or even across operating systems. > > > annoying all users for the sake of a few. > > Having a different file dialog in every app is annoying *all* users, > not just a few. > > > On the other hand, if any set of interfaces *was* capable of these > > things, it would be similar in complexity to a toolkit. > > The file dialog wouldn't need to be a toolkit itself, all it would > need to do is provide a way to embed a custom widget of another > toolkit in it. I haven't seen anybody sticking a Qt widget inside a > Gtk app, but that should be something doable. > > That said, I think it's a little late for a regular old file dialog > API, it could have been really useful 15 years ago, but we are slowly > moving away from apps that have full system access. So something like > Flatpak's Portals seem to be a more realistic way forward. > > -- > Blog: http://grumbel.blogspot.com/ > JabberID: xmpp:[email protected] > ICQ: 59461927 > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg WRT moving towards flatpak, I realize that some people want that to be the direction things go in, but I personally dislike it, as do many others. For this reason, I think that there is still merit to working on plain-old-userspace API's. -- Roman Hargrave http://hargrave.info [email protected] $ fortune -s linuxcookie linux cookie Why use Windows when you can have air conditioning? Why use Windows, when you can leave through the door? -- Konrad Blum _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg