[oe] [RFC] Smallscreen mod for GtkFileChooser

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

Paul Sokolovsky schrieb:
>   I've prepared a patch to make GtkFileChooser, a
> contemporary gtk's file open/save widget, to suite small, PDA-like
> screens (including QVGA) better.

>   The patch is available at
> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3634 , with extensive
> description at
> http://pfalcon-oe.blogspot.com/2008/01/smallscreen-mod-for-gtkfilechooser.html

Looks pretty good. I like the patch because it is not that intrusive.
If you could make all changes depend on the screen size it would be worth trying
to get it upstream. This might save us a lot of work in future.

> . I'm glad I've written it in high detail, because Koen quickly
> pointed me to similar patches in Poky:
> 
> http://svn.o-hand.com/view/poky?rev=3408&view=rev
> http://svn.o-hand.com/view/poky?rev=2596&view=rev
> 
>   I didn't try them, but they appear to make more invasive changes to
> gtk+, though apparently add more features (for good, bad, or for
> vendor's requirements).

Do we have a screenshot around to see how it looks? :)

Greetings

Florian

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