Re: [Pan-users] Now I have switched to 0.12

[Charles Kerr]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:35:28PM -0400, Wolf J. Flywheel wrote:
> On Thursday 27 June 2002 23:19, Steven Ellis wrote:
> 
> > Well ive had a further play and one thing missing.
> >
> > In the save attachments dialog the dropdown menu with
> > the last so many locations I have used is gone. I tend
> > to use that quite a lot.
> 
>       When I griped about this, it was explained.  Pan has dropped the 
> dependency upon Gnome libraries in order to port it to Windows.  The 
> path history was a Gnome thing, so it has been lost.

*nod*

>       (At least, that was the explanation.  I know gqView has no Gnome 
> dependencies, yet still has this path history.  Possibly I 
> misunderstood, and it's a functionality that has been removed from 
> Gtk2, or it's something the gqView programmer did himself.)

Aha, I think I'll go grab a copy of gqview's source code and
use their history dropdown code for 0.13. :)

>       Anyway, we may hope that, down the road a ways, such niceties will 
> return -- there was discussion of bringing Gnome things back in as 
> build-time options, once the Windows port is a reality.

Yes, this is the plan.