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

Randy Yates (yates@xxxxxxxx) writes:
Dan Espen <daneNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
Tell which applications you are looking at.

firefox, acroread, pgadmin3, vmware, gimp, ...

I'm guessing that, since gimp uses it, it's some
version of GTK? (Doesn't "GTK" stand for "Gimp TookKit"?)

While you are at it, why not tell us what you think is wrong with
the dialog.

Well, I'm not a GUI expert, but there are a couple of things that
seem fairly obvious to me:

1. No "View As..." mode. E.g., viewing as a list of files, icons, etc.
2. Related to 1, and starting this thread, allowing the files displayed
in the current directory display to be rendered somehow. E.g., .jpg files
would display a tiny image of their content. Etc.

So what you're really asking is for something like the Mac, where you can
see a list of files in a directory, and it can either be text or fancy icons
or simple icons (and you can select how the directory is displayed).

The second thing may be different than it's portrayed. It may simply
be showing icons, which happen to reflect the contents of the file. IN
other words, the "file opener" is not doing some work to peek into
the file, something earlier has created a tiny version of what's in
the file, and made it the icon for that file.

I should note that at least one Linux thumbnail graphic viewer does
store small versions of the graphic files when a directory is open, so
when you open that directory the next time with that program, it
deosn't have to render those thumbnails again.

Take note that Linux is not a GUI operating system. It's an operating
system, that you can run a GUI on top of if you so desire. That impacts
on the results you'll get, since anything too graphic-related only works
some of the time.

Michael



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