GTK 2.4 Additions

The new file chooser has different modes for opening files, opening directories and saving files. What you can see here is the "file open" mode. You can also see that the entry for manually entering the pathname is no longer shown in the dialog itself, but has been relegated to a secondary dialog, which can be opened using the key combination Control-L. This design decision is still hotly debated in some circles, but it has lead to a much less cluttered file chooser UI. Note that the entry offers filename completion with a completion popup, as commonly seen in web browser location entries.

The new combo box widget features different styles, it supports the traditional optionmenu style with a popup menu - which can now also be organized in columns, as the screenshot shows. The alternative style is derived from the appearance of combo boxes on Windows.