Windows: System file browser is lacking

[Liggliluff]

Might have been requested before, but isn't an active issue.

The software really needs to use the system file browser, not a built in one. The Windows file browser is much nicer to use and follows standard Windows design.

Problems with the built-in browser:

• It doesn't have the quick access folders I've saved to quickly access my files, and I have to tediously browse through the folders manually.
• I can add folders to my favourites, sometimes, it doesn't always work. But that still requires me to click Favourites, then double-click that folder to get to it. Windows default browser has a one-click favourite list.
• There doesn't seem to be an easy way to remove favourites.
• The left panel to browse within is very narrow, and it's not always possible to see the full paths in favourites.
• The panel can be enlarged, but only from the bottom right corner, which is not a limitation in Windows normally.
• the panel is locked inside the software, and can't be moved outside.
• If I go to Drives, then choose the drive Materialize is on, it will go straight to that folder instead of the root of the drive.
• Terms like "My Docs", "My Pics", "Favourites" are not standard Windows terms, and those along with "Drives", "Desktop" are not shown in my language, which Windows does.
• I can't manually type an address to go to. There is the option to paste an address, so I can manually type the address in a different program, or in the "Filename" field, copy that and choose Paste Directory.
• It doesn't remember the last directory when I restart the software.
• (Similarly, it doesn't remember other settings in the software either, like Height From Diffuse after a restart)
• It doesn't update the browser when files and folders are moved in Widows.
• The whole design of having a left panel of folders, a middle panel of files, and a right panel of preview, does not conform to Windows standards.
• The file browser is forced to use the date-time format "M/d/yyyy h:mm:ss a", which is a format with very limited global use, and ignoring my system settings, which I have set to "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", since I find it so much better.
• The file browser is not displaying the file sizes with thousand dividers, and isn't using Windows standard symbols, showing "12575 KB" when it should appear as "12 575 kB" for me.
• Both the open and save dialogues says "Select" when the standard in Windows is to say "Open" and "Save" (unless you have a folder selected, then Windows will say "Open" for both).

Most of these would be resolved by just using the Windows open/save dialogues instead. There's a reason why the first thing I do in Adobe is to disable the built-in browser. The only software that almost has an excuse is Blender, since they have settings for opening and saving, something they could display after selecting a file, but still.

If for some reason you refuse to use the build-in browser, then it must be at least as good as the Windows browser, which it's far from at this moment.

[Liggliluff]

So there's the file favorites.txt which I can simply edit, which allows me to remove it. Tedious, but it works.

Why can't the last opened location be stored in settings.txt? <lastLocation>D:\Folder\Location\</lastLocation>