Recently the wxGTK file open dialog seems to have gotten
dumbed-down severely.
I can no longer get it to display like file size or mtime. Now
all you're allowed to know are the file name and the
modification _day_. And just to be particularly annoying, it
refuses to display the actual date, but instead displays
strings like "today" and "yesterday".
Is there any way to tell wxGTK that I'm bright enough to
understand things like file sizes and actual dates/times?
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Recently the wxGTK file open dialog seems to have gotten
dumbed-down severely.
I can no longer get it to display like file size or mtime. Now
all you're allowed to know are the file name and the
modification _day_. And just to be particularly annoying, it
refuses to display the actual date, but instead displays
strings like "today" and "yesterday".
Is there any way to tell wxGTK that I'm bright enough to
understand things like file sizes and actual dates/times?
That's the native GTK2 file dialog. I don't like it much either, but it
is the standard for the platform now and so that is what wxGTK is going
to use. I think that the generic wx file dialog is still available in
the build, but I haven't looked yet to see if I could make both available.
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Robin Dunn
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Recently the wxGTK file open dialog seems to have gotten
dumbed-down severely.
I can no longer get it to display like file size or mtime.
Now all you're allowed to know are the file name and the
modification _day_. And just to be particularly annoying, it
refuses to display the actual date, but instead displays
strings like "today" and "yesterday".
That's the native GTK2 file dialog.
Yea, that's what I figured. The change happened when I upgraded
GTK a while back.
I don't like it much either, but it is the standard for the
platform now and so that is what wxGTK is going to use. I
think that the generic wx file dialog is still available in
the build, but I haven't looked yet to see if I could make
both available.
It's not a big deal, and I presume there must be somebody out
there who thinks it important to hide that information from the
user.
I personally just find it a royal PITA when I now have to fire
up a shell window and do an "ls -l" before I pick a file in the
GTK file browser box. Even windows allows you to display file
details. It's a sad day when GTK has been dumbed down even
_dumber_ than MS Windows.
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On 2006-07-28, Robin Dunn <robin@alldunn.com> wrote:
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