I think it is worth the extra effort, and I'm willing to put it in, because right now the GTK dialog is just aweful. I'm going away on holiday for the next couple of weeks, but when I get back, I'll begin to look in to all this, if the rest of developers are willing to sanction it.

From: MenTaLguY <mental@...3...>
Sent: 26 June 2007 11:29
To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Getting the GdkWindow in which a verb wasinvoked

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:26:24 -0300, "bulia byak" wrote:
> Easy access to the examples folder is also a very important selling
> point, especially for newbies. As it is now, I'm sure many users don't
> even suspect that we have such a folder.

It is possible in principle to customize the Win32 places bar, though there's
still the question of whether it's worth the effort:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/03/CuttingEdge/

-mental