[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

Andreas Schneider aksdb at gmx.de
Mon Mar 8 02:27:55 CET 2010


Am Sonntag 07 März 2010 12:30:16 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
> Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
> > Why should I waste time and change to a different program while I could
> > do this in the file open/save dialog?
> 
> Then the file dialogs must use the platform specific file managers. On
> Windows, the dialogs expose functionality of file explorer, on Linux
> that of the installed or preferred Nautilus, Konqueror or whatsoever.
> Please note that the dialogs shall *use* the managers, *not emulate*
> them. I'm not sure how this is feasable. It also would mean that
> eventual dialog customization differs for every platform.
> 
> DoDi

I think Pavel Kanzelsberger did it quite nice in Pixel: his open/save dialogs 
show lots of info and fit nicely into the interface, but you can choose (in the 
options) to have system default open/save dialogs instead.

Just my two cents ...

Best Regards,
Andreas.




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