On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:12:22PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:58:27 -0800 > Carol Spears <ca...@gimp.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:48:16PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > I am running GIMP 2.6.10 under Ubuntu Maverick...and lately > > > have been having an intermittent problem with the file > > > selector. > > > It pops up seemingly locked-up so I can't change directories > > > or disks, matter of fact can't do anything but close it. > > > Anybody experienced anything like this? > > > > > does this happen with the file selector from <Image>/File/Open or > > from the file selectors that are part of plugin dialogs? > > The <image>/File/Open. I can still drag an image in from Nautilus > when it happens. > much more attention perhaps is being spent on drag-and-drop and working between applications than actual functionality. this more than likely is not a problem of GIMP's but of gtk+.
http://www.gimpedimenta.org/resources/fu/gimp-file-load.shtml is perhaps not pertainent to this discussion, but dragging and dropping from gimp-1.2 was some of the worst few seconds that i ever had with that version. that being said, this new file selector is kind of stupid and perhaps trying to do too much: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=165139 perhaps it is unfair to have a text file with the filename of "Desktop" -- i am on linux, however and i have that there and for whatever reason want that file to be there. so, i am after all of this, suggesting that the fileselector is confused while trying to make too many operating systems happy. also, rendering a widget which is 900+x800+ pixels even without file type expanded is not what i would have expected given what i was told back in the early 2000's to be a goal of the reasons to rewrite it. i am curious to know if there will be a solution for this -- perhaps not for gtk2. i will say this about the widgets -- gimp-2.0 uses gtk+-2.2n with a more than reasonable amount of success 6 or 7 years later.... carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
