Re: Need w32 help

[Jason Rumney]

> > That sounds like a step backwards. I can understand this behaviour for
> > platforms that do not let you create a new file from the open file
> > dialog, but why change those platforms that do?
>
>
> Doesn't "New File..." allow you to do that?  Anyway, the menu and 
> toolbar are defined in menu-bar.el and toolbar/tool-bar.el and these 
> files does not contain any platform specific code.  It would be a 
> shame to change that.  The fact that Emacs has the same menu commands 
> on all platforms is an andvantage for me at least.
Having the same menu items for all platforms is good, but the current 
implementation seems confusing both to experienced Emacs users and to 
new users. "New File..." is in fact the old "Open File...". It allows 
you to both find an existing file and create a new file. This is unlike 
any other application, perhaps "New File..." should just prompt for the 
name rather than use a file dialog. "Open File..." is now a new option 
which actively prevents you from creating a new file, and has the 
toolbar icon of dired.

The dired toolbar icon looks like the icon got corrupted, it took me a 
while to realise that it is in fact a 'd' superimposed on the old dired 
icon, and it would not be obvious to the new user what that meant. I 
suggest that we follow the example of other programs for icons, and 
restore the "Open File..." and "Open Directory..." icons to their 
previous state, and create a new icon for "New File..." based on the 
"Open File..." icon with an added highlight to make it look shiny.