In fsleyes I can load data from the terminal: fsleyes img1.nii.gz img2.nii.gz Can I do a similar thing with Slicer? I am asking because it is a little difficult to navigate to my required directory from within the GUI.

[image] Loading data in Slicer from terminal I usually drag-and-drop data into the application window and hit Enter to open it. Users from my group almost exclusively do this because they hate using the standard QFileDialog to navigate to directories. They much prefer using the native file exp…

I agree that Qt’s own (non-native) QFileDialog is not nice. It still the same as 10 years ago, while native file dialogs have improved substantially. In the past, there were concerns in the past about limitations of the native dialog (e.g., on Mac filtered out files are shown as gray instead of bei…

Proposed usage of native dialogs instead of the Qt widget-based dialog has been posted at: ENH: Improve directory and file selection by using native dialogs by jamesobutler · Pull Request #5674 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub .

Using native file dialog for selecting files and folders

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Using native file dialog for selecting files and folders

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