Icon browser (launcher properties) weirdness

Lukas Sabota punkrockguy318 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 22 11:03:43 BST 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 21:50 -0400, Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> 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
> > 
I feel replacing it with a standard file chooser with a preview would be
much more intuitive.




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