JFileChooser is a painful way to load/save files

As per [this Stack Overflow question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26340729/why-is-javas-file-browser-so-old-looking), Gephi's use of JFileChooser to do things like: loading e.g. GEXF files, exporting SVGs etc. is rather painful on my lovely Linux Mint installation. (I'm not sure if this is a problem with Linux, or a problem with Swing, but I suspect the latter.)

If there was a cross-platform way to include stuff like searching for a directory or _at least_ favourite place-type shortcuts or, at the _very least_ a way to make the Swing dialog open to where it was last browsed to, life would be much less irritating for the otherwise-enthusiastic Gephi user.