[Pipmak-Devel] File open/save Dialogs for Linux

[Urs H. <ur...@an...>]

For windows it is simple: There is one windows library with all the
fancy stuff like open dialogs or save dialogs. In Linux there exist
libraries with this stuff too. But this is the problem: There are more
than one libraries to achieve this!

The first one I found is GTK+:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkFileChooserDialog.html
The user must have GTK+ installed. Many programmes use GTK+, so this
shouldn't be a big problem.

The second one is the kde-library:
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.0-api/classref/kfile/KFileDialog.html
This dialogbox is familiar to KDE users. But Linux users that don't use
KDE probably don't want to install the KDE libraries.

Both possibilities have the same problem:
They need a huge library to be linked that will not be used in the rest
of the programme. Great! Perhaps there is somewhere a little library
dedicated to file dialogs ...


Anyway, I will try to implement the Dialogbox from GTK+ for Linux.