How to get detailed view in open / save windows back after v6.4?

[w-user]

If this has been asked (and answered) before, I didn't find it using the search function. In that case: Sorry!

Since v6.5, in programs that don't have "extended options" (see B) below) in the top part of the (e.g.) open / save window, there's no way to get to detailed view, .e.g to sort by date etc. There's just a folder / file list.

There seems to be two types of programs / program behaviors in that regard:

In the top part of the open / save window are the following icons available
A). A forward and a backward arrow.
B) A drop-down menu of the folder structure, a upwards arrow, a desktop symbol, a "crate new folder" symbol, a "list" symbol and a "details" / detailed view symbol.

Up to and including v6.4, there was the option to "right-click -> view -> details", but since v6.5, that option no longer exists. That might not be a problem for programs that have "extended options" displayed in the top part of the window, but apparently, not all programs do.

Is there any way, e.g. a registry entry that could be altered, to either get the "view" option back to the right-click context menu or get all programs to offer "extended options" in their open / save windows?

I tried several versions since v6.4, including v7.0 - but certainly not all. I never encountered any version after v6.4 that had the "view" option with the right-click context menu.

Thanks!

Mike

[jkfloris]

For some programs, this has to do with the Windows version that Wine mimics.
For example, with Mailwasher, the Import -> Open screen looks different in Windows XP mode than in the Windows 7 variant.
(You can set the Windows version with winecfg)

[w-user]

Thanks for the hint!

I checked for two of my applications that don't have "extended options". Unfortunately, for none of the 9 available windows versions in winecfg was there any change in the design of the open / save window.
I checked the same for the current version of Mailwasher and "file -> import / export" which also has the simple version of file / folder access window. Also, no change in how the window looks like for all available windows versions.
I haven't checked the old version of Mailwasher though.

Of course, the application was closed before making the change and started anew after making the change.
This is true on my system for wine v6.4 and v7.0.

Do maybe the dll settings in winecfg have an effect on how those windows look like? But on the other hand, all the dlls shown are either set to "native" or "native, then builtin", so they would change with the selected windows version...

[jkfloris]

For which dll's do you have an override?

For me, the screens look like this with only dotnet40 installed:
Windows XP

Windows 7

Can you give an example of another program that has this problem?

[w-user]

Thanks for the reply!

This is what it looks like on the system (dotnet472) in question:

atl100 (Native, Builtin)
d3dcompiler_47 (Native)
mscoree (Native)
msvcp100 (Native, Builtin)
msvcr100 (Native, Builtin)
msxml6 (Native, Builtin)
vcomp100 (Native, Builtin)

[w-user]

I did some more testing.

I can get extended options if I set global settings to Windows 2003 or Windows XP. But it doesn't work if I set those Windows versions only for the respective application. But at least that's a big step in the right direction.
I only tested this on wine v6.4, will have to test on v7.0.

Thanks again for the input!

Is there a way to make detailed view default (for the windows that have extended options)? Probably via registry?

Thanks!

[w-user]

Above findings are also true for wine v7.0 on the system in question.