[wxPython-users] don't like new wxGTK file dialog...

[Robin Dunn]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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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