Icon browser (launcher properties) weirdness

[Matthew Nicholson]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 02:25 +0100, Joao Inacio wrote:
> On 6/22/06, Joao Inacio <jcinacio at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's not the first time this issue is bugging me, but i finally
> > decided to ask about it.
> >
> > The issue is the icon browser/chooser (the one you get on launcher properties):
> >
> > IMHO it's extremely weird to use, to say the least. i believe many
> > users don't know they can use icons on other directories other than
> > "/usr/share/pixmaps" because of the way it currently works.
> >
> > So, are there any plans to change this dialog? AFAIK GTK already
> > provides an image select dialog with preview (don't know if you can
> > restrict it to use only certain formats, though).
> >
> > I'll gladly help out w/ anything that doesn't involve writing/coding ;)
> >
> 
> Much to my surprise i realised that this applies only to gnome-panel
> launchers, and for example any launcher on my desktop will use a very
> nice dialog.
> 
> So i guess it's just a matter of replacing the one in gnome-panel(?)
> 
well, from what i can tell (assuming we're talking about the same
dialog), it is also used when editing properties in the menu (alacarte
uses the same dialog as the panel launches)

i agree with you as to how it is fairly non-intuitive.

> -- 
> João Inácio
> http://www.jcinacio.com
> 
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