[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Florian Klaempfl het geskryf:
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>> ... and the functionality is less: just one example: Drag and Drop
>> between explorer and file dialogs does not work in MSEgui,
>
> To my surprise, Gnome also supports drag&drop to the File Dialog. :)  I
> never knew that.
>
>
>> neither the  context menu works,
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> Gnome only allows "show hidden files" or "add to bookmarks/favourites list".
>
>
>> so one can not create folders, rename files etc.
>
> Not allowed by Gnome either.

But KDE does.

So you see: there are some advantages to using native widgetsets.
It's not because you (or me) don't use some (or a lot) of things, 
that other people don't. Using native widgetsets ensures that
all these things that people have taken for granted still work.

Michael.