Looks like we fired messages simultaneously :)
Sounds good. What would help would be something in the Extension::DB information to indicate this. Maybe the mime-type would be enough, ("image/blah" or "x-image/blah") , but an enumerated int would be easier.
Ted?
Also, by "All files" do you mean all, or all Inkscape-supported?
All files.
All Images
All openable files
All Files
All files at all :)
All Inkscape Files
All native files (svg & svgz)
Preview:
9 There's no way to turn the previews off.
This could be either easy or difficult. What people are likely to expect is the same tree-widget type of switch provided on the Save dialog. That might not be so easy. A simple toggle would be easier. Remember, we must work within the API. The actual widgets of the FileChooser are private.
OK, but this is not really critical, because the previews are surprisingly fast even for complex files.
Sure. I just need to think of a "No preview available" svg drawing, something like the Gimp has. Maybe a good artist could volunteer to make one?
Well, just make it show anything, and maybe it will be good enough :) If not I'll see to it.
11 Bob, you mentioned that you did preview for the bitmap files as well, but this does not work for me, only SVGs.
..bmp? or .xbm? What I did for the preview was choose the more common formats. Maybe I should use the Extension::DB list for these, too.
Preview does not work for PNG (most important), JPG, BMP or XBM. I think it should ideally work for anything we can open/import.