KDE File Chooser in GTK apps on Kubuntu

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Oct 21 18:09:12 UTC 2008


Myriam Schweingruber wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/10/21 Gordon Schulz <gordon.schulz at gmail.com>:
>>> I agree with you here - but then again some GNOME users will probably
>>> want to give their right leg for Amarok to use GTK.
>>
>> dotan at laptop:~$ limbtogtk -l rightLeg | grep amarok
>> http://www.exaile.org/
> 
> It is a Amarok clone, but cloned from the 1.4.0 times of Amarok, ages
> behind what Amarok 2 is doing now (currently in beta 2).
> 
> And why would Amarok addicts have to miss it using Gnome? It works
> quite well in the Gnome environment too. But don't even ask the Amarok
> developers to port it to GTK, that's a no go and makes simply no
> sense. IMHO: why port something beautiful to something ugly?

Absolutely, but if you're used to ugly, you'd probably hate having a single
beautiful application on your desktop, making everything else look bad :-)  

Cinderella's stepsisters didn't like her showing them up, either.
-- 
derek





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