I'm not going to raise a big stink about it. But I'll just note that Adobe Photoshop has a run-time toggle to select their "enhanced" file dialog vs the native file dialog.

Actually I would find Inkscapes dialogs much easier to use if they just remembered where they were from invocation to invocation. Then those links would be much less critical. And also it would be nice if they remembered the last save format used. For instance I frequently work in a way where I'm trying to keep PDF mirrors of the files I'm working on. In that case I use "save a copy as..." but that always defaults to the current directory rather than the directory I last used for "save a copy as..." and it always defaults to SVG instead of the last format I used.

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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Joel Holdsworth <joel@...1709...> wrote:

Can I suggest you add shortcuts into your My Documents folder to link to the places you want to go to. Either that, or you can customise the places bar by modifying your registry as explained here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300434.aspx

I specifically want to avoid adding more preferences for things like this if possible. This article explains why: http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html

Does that make sense? What do you think?

All the best Joel

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:14 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

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I didn't realize these new native file dialogs on Windows were going to completely replace the GTK ones.

I actually find the GTK ones to be easier to use because of those handy user links you can make on the left, and because of the way incremental search works.

I figured there would be something in Preferences to bring back the GTK dialog, but I couldn't find such a thing. Is it just hiding from me somewhere?

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:26 AM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter@...400...> wrote:

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Actually I would find Inkscapes dialogs much easier to use if they just remembered where they were from invocation to invocation. Then those links would be much less critical.

This was fixed recently and should work now on both Windows and Linux.

Cool. I had a snapshot from June 6, so I guess it must have been fixed quite recently.

What about remembering the last format used for "Save a copy as..."?

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Bill Baxter-2 wrote:

Actually I would find Inkscapes dialogs much easier to use if they just remembered where they were from invocation to invocation.

good comment, probably the best thing to do would be to file a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ .