[Bf-committers] integrating to desktops (Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [13063] branches/blender2.5/blender/source /blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_window.c: Removed silly Global windowstate variable.)

[Chris Burt]

As a user who follows this mailing list as closely as I can, I wanted
to offer an "outside" perspective. Perhaps it won't be useful for the
discussion, but I wanted to state that I, for one, like Blender's way
of doing things and find the file selection dialogs of GTK and Windows
etc. to be disorganized, and inefficient.

If it came down to a vote, I would vote that Blender continue to use
its own native file selector, which although could use improvement,
feels to me like a solid and simple way of getting things done. As a
user, I feel as though the addition of an OS native dialog box would
add inconsistency to Blender, and in my opinion this should be avoided
at all costs.

--Chris

On Jan 4, 2008 12:30 PM, Stephen Swaney <sswaney at centurytel.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:17:08AM +0200, Toni Alatalo wrote:
>
> One problem you run into trying to mix widget toolkits is that most of
> them like to have their own event loop.  A lesser, but not
> insignificant problem is the maintenance overhead of multi-OS GUIs.
>
>
> I know Free Desktop is trying to bridge the gap between kde, gnome and
> other Xll desktops, but I'm really not familiar with it.  Supporting
> open standards is good, but this leaves out Windows and possibly(?)
> OSX.
>
> --
> Stephen Swaney
> sswaney at centurytel.net
>
>
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