2010/11/8 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>:
I was referring to e.g. an extra checkbox in the import dialog that specifies whether the file is to be embedded or linked, or a button that brings up format options (which are currently shown as a popup). Adding extra controls is supported in both GTK and native Windows dialogs, and is a standard practice, but is more difficult in Windows API.
Now that I think about it, placing this checkbox into the file dialog seems a slightly weird UI choice. It mixes up different concerns. I know other software does it this way, but if I try to ignore the pressure of tradition and think about it objectively, it really seems to me that our current approach - one dialog to choose the file, the other to specify what to do with it - is more logical. For export, for example, it is normal to have two dialogs - one file dialog and one options dialog.