On Monday 04 July 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2011 Jul, Marijn Kruisselbrink wrote: > > Why would you want the "current" working directory to be shown when you > > start an app from the kde menu and/or krunner or any of many other > > places where you invoke the application without having a clear concept > > of working directory? > > > > This might be a nice feature for people that start stuff from the command > > line often, > > Yes, it is a very nice feature, and requested in a three-year old bug. > > > but it seems like it would break for the much more common use-case of > > end-users starting apps from user interfaces... > > I don't see what it breaks exactly -- the old situation where you'd show > the directory from which you last opened a file is confusing, and since > the last opened file is in the recent files list it's kind of superfluous. > > I guess we could make it an option -- either the current working directory > as it is now, or the Documents directory, if the application isn't opened > with a file. The old situation was just nuts, in my opinion. we could also have a command line option that say "don't change the working directory" (ie --no-current-directory-change). And then edit application ".desktop" so that they use the command line option (ie krita --no-current- directory-change), this way, when starting from the command line (assuming the user don't use the option...) he will get a change of the current directory, while when starting from kmenu/krunner it would not change the working directory.
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