The design seems normal to us now, but it's still problematic. (Although the rest of the UI seems to be getting worse at an even greater rate, so people might not expect the dialogs to make sense anymore.)
In particular, the horizontally scrollable non-detailed view (faithfully copied by KDE) might have made sense when filenames were restricted to 8.3 characters[1] but is absurd with long file names.
The design seems normal to us now, but it's still problematic. (Although the rest of the UI seems to be getting worse at an even greater rate, so people might not expect the dialogs to make sense anymore.)
In particular, the horizontally scrollable non-detailed view (faithfully copied by KDE) might have made sense when filenames were restricted to 8.3 characters[1] but is absurd with long file names.
[1] As in the Windows 3.1 file manager: http://images.pcworld.com/images/article/2012/04/windows31_1...