On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:12:56 +0200, Rudi Effe wrote: > Dear list, > > for some reason, Debian favors Gnome to be the default desktop. My > reason for using KDE is mainly Gnomes file browser. But as a matter of > fact, major applications are using the GTK2 libraries (Mozilla, > Openoffice.org, Gimp, Audacity etc.) - and Opneoffice.org is the only > one that allows to use the KDE file selector. > > Now, what's wrong with the GTK2 file chooser? I will report a bug if > anybody could name the package/library I have to refer to. > > Look at this screen shot for instance: > > http://imagebin.ca/view/wxHN3lH.html > > (1) all entries are displayed twice
This looks like a bug that should be filed at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ against the 'gtk+' product. > (2) there is no option to sort by size or to even display size. > maybe this must be enabled by the calling app (audacity here) - but > if this option is not diallowed explicitly, it should be possible to > add it by the browsing user. Seems like a useful feature. You should file a bug at http:// bugzilla.gnome.org/ against the 'gtk+' product. > (3) whenever I tell Mozilla to open a dialogue with a specific app, > I can (to be quick) enter its path right in the file name box (say: > /usr/bin/ark). Next time however, the file selector will start > browsing that directory (/usr/bin) and produce a hang lasting at > least 4-5 seconds. Suspecting - missing caching > - slow algorithms > - bad threading The problem is that all the files in /usr/bin have MIME detection done on them, which takes ages. See <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi? id=322314> for further details. > (4) missing eyecandiness: grey and simple icons, no rounded corners, > dominating dark grey, low percentage of area used for content/ > information (too much frame). This is simply due to the default GTK+ theme being, well, rubbish. If you change your theme to the default GNOME theme then things will look much better. You can do this by running gnome-appearance-properties which appears to work by fiddling with the values of the gconf keys under '/desktop/gnome/interface'. > Regards > Rudi -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
