Re: A Suggestion For Higher-Quality Open-Source Software

Randy Yates <yates@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Perhaps I am wrong, but I thought that the feedback itself would have
had some value. Perhaps the problem is that I do not understand which
part of the system provides the open dialog. Is it the window manager
(gnome, kde, etc.)? Something else?

Perhaps this goes much much deeper than my surface ramblings. Perhaps
this is an issue of the partitioning of an operating system between
the kernel (and associated kernel modules) and the X11 user
interface/window manager, namely that the user interface depends on
the particular window manager, and as long as window managers are
non-standard, we're gonna have standards issues.

On Fedora Core 4/5 using gnome, what is the standard file-open dialog
box I keep seeing here?

Since this thread started on Mar 12, you should know by now,
it's the GUI toolkit that provides most of the file open dialogs
you see. But same as on windows, an application developer is
free to write their own dialog and they do.

Examples of GUI tool kits: QT (used by KDE), Gtk (used by
Gnome).

Even if you are using FC 4/5 and Gnome, you might be running
QT based applications.
.

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