Comments on: Porting your Gtk+ application to windows http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2009/06/02/porting-your-gtk-application-to-windows/ Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Twitter Trackbacks for Nacho’s Blog » Blog Archive » Porting your Gtk+ application to windows [gnome.org] on Topsy.com http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2009/06/02/porting-your-gtk-application-to-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Twitter Trackbacks for Nacho’s Blog » Blog Archive » Porting your Gtk+ application to windows [gnome.org] on Topsy.com Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:19:35 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/?p=22#comment-5 [...] link is being shared on Twitter right now. @pr_linux, an influential author, said Ignacio Casal [...] [...] link is being shared on Twitter right now. @pr_linux, an influential author, said Ignacio Casal [...]

]]> By: Artem Vakhitov http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2009/06/02/porting-your-gtk-application-to-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Artem Vakhitov Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:01:47 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/?p=22#comment-4 In case of the print dialog, that's more for the sake of consistency and familiarity, which are also very important to users. Anyway, the file dialog (the main reason for my reply) is considered lacking functionality by many people, including me. And the fact is, many devels are lazy to "ifdef a bit," so users end up with a foreign and often inferior dialog when using the app in Windows. I think that it makes sense in most cases to default to native dialogs in Windows. That, of course, requires some changes in GTK+. In case of the print dialog, that’s more for the sake of consistency and familiarity, which are also very important to users. Anyway, the file dialog (the main reason for my reply) is considered lacking functionality by many people, including me.

And the fact is, many devels are lazy to “ifdef a bit,” so users end up with a foreign and often inferior dialog when using the app in Windows. I think that it makes sense in most cases to default to native dialogs in Windows. That, of course, requires some changes in GTK+.

]]> By: nacho http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2009/06/02/porting-your-gtk-application-to-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-3 nacho Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:52:08 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/?p=22#comment-3 I think the print dialogs are ok, why do you want different ones? In any case, you could always ifdef a bit and use the win32 native ones. I think the print dialogs are ok, why do you want different ones? In any case, you could always ifdef a bit and use the win32 native ones.

]]> By: Artem Vakhitov http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2009/06/02/porting-your-gtk-application-to-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Artem Vakhitov Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:27:02 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/?p=22#comment-2 As a lowly user, I would love if developers had a simple way to make GTK+ applications use native file/print/etc dialogs on Windows. As far as I understand (and I may well be mistaken), this is not done automatically. As a lowly user, I would love if developers had a simple way to make GTK+ applications use native file/print/etc dialogs on Windows. As far as I understand (and I may well be mistaken), this is not done automatically.

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