Joel Holdsworth wrote:
Are you saying that at some stage there was suport for native windows file dialogs which was then removed? If so why was this? and if I was to add the support in once again would I be reversing some community decision from a while ago? if that decision was made, on what grounds was it made?
Yes, almost 3 years ago, we had a lot of talks about this, and the general consensus was to move to the new GtkFileChooser for consistency, for the bookmarks, and for the nifty Preview.
This was part of the work to make win32 not be perceived as a second-class port of the code, but rather another supported build.
Maybe having a preferences.xml option to show the old dialog as an option would be good. Or maybe a control on each dialog that would switch to the alternate view. But it would NOT be a good idea to disable the GtkFileChooser for all win32 users. Far, far too much work has gone into it to throw it away.
bob