File Chooser

The standard Java file chooser has been replaced by an enhanced file chooser which offers several advanced features:




The file chooser supports a preemptive mode that similar to the Windows Explorer fetches directory information in advance. This feature caused some performance trouble on UNIX Systems with very large directory structures or slow file systems (e.g. AFS), where the file chooser operations were slown down essentially. For this reason the preemptive mode is configurable in the "System Settings" panel of the "User Defaults" menu.