[Qgis-developer] Mac Use of QFileDialog

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 18, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Tom Elwertowski wrote:

> Attached is a patch which uses setSidebarUrls to access multiple Mac  
> drives and make QFileDialog look more like a Mac dialog. It has two  
> deficiencies.
>
> 1. The volumes are listed alphabetically rather by mount order.
>
If drivers are listed in mount order in OSX, I never really noticed,  
but given a choice I'd prefer aplha.

> 2. If you navigate into the root of the boot volume, for example / 
> Applications or /Network, QFileDialog discovers that /Volumes should  
> be invisible and no longer lets you browse /Volumes. The workaround  
> is to cancel and open the dialog again. If the user goes directly to  
> an external volume, this won't be noticed.
>
>
> This demo patch only fixes file dialogs in qgisapp.cpp. These are  
> probably the most noticeable. To fix them all, QFileDialog needs to  
> subclassed. I'll do this if other Mac users think this is better  
> than the current QFileDialog behavior.
>
Anything is better than no access at all to Volumes.

>

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