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by yyyk 2139 days ago
I can't recall when I found it about it, and OSX already has it - one of Windows' neatest tricks is being able to do some regular file operations in the standard open/save dialogs. It saved me countless clicks over the years at $WORK.

Was Windows the first to allow this, or was there some antecedent? There are 'modern' Linux GUI toolkits which still do not allow this, like GTK's GtkFileChooser which apparently lives in the dark ages (no thumbnail support there either).
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2rsf 2138 days ago
It is probably unknown to many, but I still remember someone telling me about it when Windows 95 was about to come out
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machocam 2139 days ago
To be clear is this feature being able to move or rename files from the save/open dialog?
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yyyk 2139 days ago
Yes, also copy and clipboard integration. So many little uses. I can rename a file in the open dialog to ensure correct program behaviour, or forget where I saved something, open the save dialog again, and copy the file without needing to navigate with another program to the path. Note that the path is copyable in explorer dialogs, so I can copy it and navigate more easily with another program if that is still required.

I'm running KDE and it gets the open/save dialog just right, but every GTK program I run shows that barebones picker.

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