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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Changing the path opened by default by GTK/Gnome file open dialogue
- From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:35:00 -0500
- Message-id: <1191353700.3776.148.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 23:52 +0300, Tero Pesonen wrote:
> I'm running KDE on 10.2, and would like to change the default path
> opened by the file open dialogue that is used by GTK applications. Now the
> dialogue always opens my home folder, and I'd like to have it
> open one of my documents folders instead, so I don't have to navigate
> there manually. I regularly use a number of Gnome/GTK apps, and it would
> be nice to get this set somewhere. On KDE I can simply go to the Control
> Centre and set paths there.
This is a big usability problem in the file chooser. The way it works
is this:
* If an app decides to set its starting directory, it uses that.
* If an app doesn't set the starting directory, it uses $cwd.
Some applications don't care to set a directory, so you get $cwd in the
file chooser (which is usually $HOME). Other applications try to be
nice and remember the last directory you used, but that of course only
works within *that* application (and I think some others, like
OpenOffice.org, always try to look for your ~/Documents...). The end
result is a big mess from the user's viewpoint :)
This needs to be thought out and fixed. In the meantime, you can set up
a quick keyboard shortcut to jump to a directory:
http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2005-09.html#filechooser-quickie-bookmarks
Good luck,
Federico
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> I'm running KDE on 10.2, and would like to change the default path
> opened by the file open dialogue that is used by GTK applications. Now the
> dialogue always opens my home folder, and I'd like to have it
> open one of my documents folders instead, so I don't have to navigate
> there manually. I regularly use a number of Gnome/GTK apps, and it would
> be nice to get this set somewhere. On KDE I can simply go to the Control
> Centre and set paths there.
This is a big usability problem in the file chooser. The way it works
is this:
* If an app decides to set its starting directory, it uses that.
* If an app doesn't set the starting directory, it uses $cwd.
Some applications don't care to set a directory, so you get $cwd in the
file chooser (which is usually $HOME). Other applications try to be
nice and remember the last directory you used, but that of course only
works within *that* application (and I think some others, like
OpenOffice.org, always try to look for your ~/Documents...). The end
result is a big mess from the user's viewpoint :)
This needs to be thought out and fixed. In the meantime, you can set up
a quick keyboard shortcut to jump to a directory:
http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2005-09.html#filechooser-quickie-bookmarks
Good luck,
Federico
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