First off, I wanted to say thank you to Bob for this work. The preview on open is fabulous! It gives a whole new perspective on my files. A very important addition. Still there are problems. I know some of them may not be fixable due to GTK limitations, but still. 1 The dialog is modal but not transient. It's a very dangerous combination: it sinks under your document and you can't understand why the document is unresponsive. Please make it transient as it was before. 2 The dialog opens in some unpredictable place on the screen. Before, it opened centered over the document window. Can we restore that? (Maybe it's a consequence of its not being transient.) 3 BUG: when I press Ctrl+O for the first time, there are no files listed at all in the directory where it opens, only subdirectories. If I go e.g. to the parent dir and then back, the files appear. 4 After some thinking I'm convinced that (as suggested here) we must replace the "Autodetect" with two new options, "All images" and "All files". That makes much more sense and is more consistent with typical Windows/Mac programs. Both these options would do autodetect and differ in filtering the list: no filtering for "All files" and showing only Inkscape-supported images for "All images". The bad thing about "Autodetect" is that it speaks about what the program does, not about what the user needs. Autodetect is not something I ever want to be off; it must always work behind the scenes. What I want to control is what files are shown and what not, and this is what this menu must affect. 5 The menu should be reordered more logically so that the most frequently used options are at the top: All images <-- default All files SVG Compressed SVG ---------- (separator) AI EPS PS Dia Sketch WMF text rest of bitmap formats... 6 Also it would be nice to group the same formats with different extensions as proposed here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=990674&... 7 If I want to go e.g. to /home/me/inkscape and browse files here, I go to the filename field, type "/home/me/inkscape" and press Enter. Nothing happens. In other programs (and I believe in Inkscape with the old dialog) this caused the dialog to switch to that dir. 8 I get these warnings whenever I open it for the first time: (inkscape:7505): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from: http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases (inkscape:7505): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksettings.c: line 447 (gtk_settings_get_for_screen): assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed (inkscape:7505): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (inkscape:7505): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1726 (g_signal_handler_disconnect): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed I installed http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases/hicolor-icon-theme-0.... but this did not help. Any ideas? Preview: 9 There's no way to turn the previews off. 10 The open/close dance of the preview pane as you go through image/non-image files is a bit disconcerting. Can't we always have the preview widget on (that is, unless you turn it off, see 8), even if inactive for the current file, with the same unchanging size? 11 Bob, you mentioned that you did preview for the bitmap files as well, but this does not work for me, only SVGs. That's it for now, perhaps I'll find more when I test it more thoroughly.