Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 19:52:19 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:23:20AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> > Why?
> 
> Because WauWau, Havoc, and the rest of their happy-go-lucky band are
> convinced that they know far, far, far better than you how you should be
> using your computer.
> 
> Which would be fine, after all... it's easy to ignore Gnome.  Except that
> they've also decided that GTK is no longer a general-purpose toolkit, but
> *their* toolkit.  So anyone using GTK gets infected with their sh*t.
> 
> You can't talk to them about it... they whine about how obviously you're
> not part of their target audience.  They're right, we're not.  We make a
> conscious decision not to use the disaster they've created, and then they
> go and make that impossible by infecting normal software.
> 
> Unfortunate, really.

Thanks for that little rant; it made my day. I recently switched from
mozilla to firefox and the new file dialog is driving me up the wall... 

-- 
Regards,
          Florian