GIMP with the new fileselector

[Maynard Kuona]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 18:20, William Hooper wrote:
> Maynard Kuona said:
> > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 08:00, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 04:41, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> >> > There are patches on GIMP with the new file selector, and I was
> >> > wondering what are the chances that Fedora ships with the patch.
> >> let's wait until they are upstream. I don't think this is an important
> >> issue, in order to have someone at redhat spend time on it.
> >>
> >> Better work on ooo 1.1.1 or something else.
> >
> > This will not make it upstream because the GIMP people target GTK+ 2.0
> > features. The new file selector would impose GTK2.4 on them, which they
> > are unwilling to do. Its not like other apps are not hacked.
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
> 
> "Do as much of the development work as possible directly in the upstream
> packages"
> 
> 
I realise, but gimp is not going to go to the new file chooser too soon
either. Its kind of nice to use the new selector instead since it is so
much better. I suppose we will be stuck with the old one for a while
then. As long as the gimp people target GTK2.0 for their development.