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-bookmar... Good luck, Federico -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org