Perhaps we should have gone with that then, well, if we ever feel like rewriting that bit (again) maybe, but I don’t believe either of us have the time right now. And yes, this was supposed to be one of those simple Qt UIs, initially we did not even consider the possibility of anything this simple being this demanding, after all there is a relatively small number of objects to handle. As for portability, sure, but it’s still easier for people to install Python and just run a script than learn to compile (or even just use a makefile on Windows, which cmd does not recognise by default). Of course if this was the main goal then something browser based would have been even better.
I agree, and yet somehow something did break spectacularly. The odd thing was it only ever happened with the Qt program, anything else using the open file dialog worked just fine. I am not sure what DE it was, it might have been Gnome 3 (with xorg). I didn’t dig too deep there though, had better things to do.