Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On September 1, 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
> > 3. Open/Save dialogs
> >
> > The dialogs are platform-specific, it is a well-known fact. It would
> > not be technically difficult to provide the selection mechanism -
> > allowing user to choose the dialog variant he likes best. It can be
> > done using DBUS calls. Once this interface is standardized, the
> > dialogs could be implemented using FLTK, openmotif, ...
>
> If it's not technically difficult, send a patch :-D
> There have actually been an (several?) attempt to do so, since it also

Qt has achieved this already, without using DBus however. the target needs to 
be able to integrate with one of the supported Qt event loops however. Qt, 
KDE, Gtk+, Windows and Mac are all supported.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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