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[Tom Elwertowski]

William Kyngesburye wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Sergio Zárate Pedroche wrote:
>> In a different issue, QGIS will not read volumes (an external firewire 
>> drive).
> 
> I think this is a known issue.  I thought there was work done to add a 
> Mac version of the open dialog, but I guess it's not ready yet.
> 
> Hmmm... aliases don't work as a workaround - it completely ignores aliases.
> 
> Tom: what happened to the Mac open/save dialogs plan?

I did a proof-of-concept which fixed only qgisapp.cpp (Add Vector/Raster 
Layer). This was not submitted to svn. The next step would have been to 
create a QgsFileDialog class to be used in place of QFileDialog so that 
the fix is made for all file dialogs, not just those in qgisapp.cpp.

I then did the 0.11 release without this fix and noticed that my extra 
volumes were appearing in file dialogs. I concluded that some other 
change to Qt 4.4.1 somehow fixed this since my bug report (212103) is 
still marked pending/unscheduled.

About three weeks ago, I deleted com.trolltech.plist and my extra 
volumes disappeared. Apparently, QFileDialog::setSidebarUrls adds items 
  to the sidebar permanently rather then just for the current 
instantiation of the QFileDialog. Thus running my proof-of-concept once 
made all future runs of any Qt app see my extra volumes so I thought the 
problem was fixed.

About two weeks ago, the non-native dialog disappeared from Qt 4.5. All 
  Mac file dialogs are native. Appending extra controls to Mac native 
file dialogs hasn't been implemented yet so the QGIS Encoding popup is 
currently unavailable in Qt 4.5.

At this point, it looks like if we do nothing, the problem will go away 
when Qt 4.5 is released (which may be around January). Qt 4.5 Carbon 
seems to work as well as Qt 4.4 for those who want native dialogs now. 
Qt 4.5 Cocoa is quirky but also usable (no splash screen, no icons in 
menus, some dialogs appear half off screen).

Tom