On Monday 04 July 2011 Jul, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > 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.
It's a good idea and I'm sure it could work -- but on the other hand, the calligra apps now behave the same as other KDE apps (well, I checked with kate and kwrite), which is worth something as well. I'm open to finetuning the behaviour in this way, though. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
