Developers are working to improve the OS after the launch

May 6, 2015 09:53 GMT  ·  By

elementary OS "Freya" was released a month ago, but the developers are still making big changes to it. One of these modifications will bring a new "Open File Dialog" that should look and work much better than the previous one.

There is no doubt that elementary "Freya" is a stable version, but that doesn't mean that the makers of this great distro shouldn't improve the OS. Surprisingly, this is not a common practice in the Linux world, especially for distributions that don't follow a rolling release model. Developers usually push new features into the next version of the OS and just maintain the one that they just released. On the other hand, elementary is not your average open source OS.

Changing the "Open File Dialog" might not seem like a big change, but it's a component that's used much more than people think. If it works as it should, then it's just invisible, and it doesn't get noticed by the user. In the case of elementary, the developer felt that they could do much better than the standard version.

More improvements like this one are likely to surface soon

The new "Open File Dialog" is really different from the previous one, and it's easy to understand why they decided to change. You might not have felt the need for a change, but you will love what they have done with it.

"So what exactly are we up to now that Freya is out? Besides pushing out fixes, we’re working on new features to land either as Freya updates or in future versions of elementary OS. One such new bit of tasty UI is a refreshed Open File dialog. The new Open File dialog not only trims the fat, but adds history navigation and our beautiful and feature rich pathbar from Files, and it still supports extra actions as seen in apps like File Roller," wrote Daniel Fore on the official blog.

The new features are still being tested, but they should land pretty soon as an update to files. You can also download elementary OS "Freya" from Softpedia.

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