I have put together designs for a new set of file dialogs. They're not 
massively different, but there are a lot of changes. The good version is at:

http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/designs/file_selector/index.html

and a short version is at:

http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/designs/file_selector/short.html

and some background on what other file dialogs do is at:

http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/designs/file_selector/background.html

Check it over. There are issues, even some that I can see in a quick review. 
This was prompted by the mock-ups I was making for my searching idea.

The main changes would be:

* New quick-access panel
   - Search bar
   - Dynamic devices list
   - Dynamic list of recent locations
   - New bookmark system
* Better configuration system
* Better preview field
   - Show large icons, rather than blanks for many files
   - Show metadata information
* Rearrangement of many control buttons.

In general, I think this design would be cleaner and more usable than the 
old one.

As always, this is only a set of mock-ups, I can't program that well. I'm 
going to send this off the core-devel at some point, after some suggestions 
here.



Does anyone know the deadlines for 3.3? If they aren't too far off, I'll try 
to wait until after 3.3 is finished up, since this is really the sort of 
change that would only go in for KDE 4.

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