hmmm ... just printed off an read this entire thread - maybe the palette issue is a dead one ? In regards to the common dialogs - the plan is to support every single one - there a new major forms class (in the works) called Kixtart.Dialogs that will support all the dialogs as seperate stand-alone objects (instead of having them as simply method calls off the form) - this will provide much flexibility in setting all the numerous options for the dialogs. Just off the top of my head, will implement:

FontDialog
PrintDialog
OpenFileDialog
SaveFileDialog
BrowseForFolderDialog
BrowseNetworkDialog
ColorDialog
CopyFileDialog (FileOperationDialog)

theres a PrintPreview dialog if memory serves, don't think that can be integrated to easily in Kixtart - not sure. Can't think of any I,ve missed.