[Qgis-developer] native file dialogs

[John C. Tull]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:

> Hi all (especially Tim as app maintainer)
>
> Are there any objections against using native file dialogs where  
> possible? If
> not, I'm going to change the file dialogs in several places (similar  
> to the
> attached example patch which does the change for 'open OGR vector  
> layer').
>
> According to the Qt docs, QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames and similar  
> open a
> native dialog on Windows and OSX. Whereas creating a QFileDialog and  
> calling
> exec() creates a 'normal' QFileDialog.
>
> Advantage of the native dialog is not only the look and feel but  
> also options
> like network drives on windows.

+1.

That would be great to get more ui consistency in the application. It  
can be confusing at times with different types of dialogs popping up.

Regards,
John