[opensuse] kde44 - what is this new dialog? It can't remember last directory which is a real pain
Guys, With kde44, there is this new open dialog that appears every time you try and load a file into system settings that is NOT a real file open dialog: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/ss/kde4/opendlg.jpg It is a royal pain in the butt to work with if you have more than one file to install from the same location because it cannot remember the last directory you installed something from, causing you to have to re-navigate the entire directory tree to get back to where you just were. A real pain if you have 4-5 cursors to load from say ~/dt/kde4/xadditions/xcursors/.. Can this thing be disabled or can a secret switch be flipped so that it can remember the last directory? I get that this thing supposedly allows you to drag-n-drop something on it, but that is a completely ridiculous thing to have pop up in response to a "browse for file" button. Think about it, to ever use a drag-n-drop, you would have to configure your desktop so the file you want is visible before you pressed "browse for a file". It really kindof defeats the whole purpose of "browse for a file" So where is the switch to politely turn this off? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 15 March 2010 06:59:59 David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
With kde44, there is this new open dialog that appears every time you try and load a file into system settings that is NOT a real file open dialog:
It is a royal pain in the butt to work with if you have more than one file to install from the same location because it cannot remember the last directory you installed something from, causing you to have to re-navigate the entire directory tree to get back to where you just were. A real pain if you have 4-5 cursors to load from say ~/dt/kde4/xadditions/xcursors/..
It's KUrlRequesterDialog , and it's been there since the mouse cursors UI was ported from KDE 3 in r698740 on Fri, 10 Aug 2007.
Can this thing be disabled or can a secret switch be flipped so that it can remember the last directory?
I get that this thing supposedly allows you to drag-n-drop something on it, but that is a completely ridiculous thing to have pop up in response to a "browse for file" button. Think about it, to ever use a drag-n-drop, you would have to configure your desktop so the file you want is visible before you pressed "browse for a file". It really kindof defeats the whole purpose of "browse for a file"
So where is the switch to politely turn this off?
You can get the full file dialog by clicking the file dialog icon to the right of the URL field, and using this you can access the last used directory in its path history combo box. It would be a few lines of code to store the directory of the last successfully installed theme for the lifetime of the control module, and reuse it directly the next time 'Install theme is shown'. If someone wants to get their hands dirty, see kdebase/workspace/kcontrol/input/xcursor/themepage.cpp Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 03/15/2010 05:13 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
You can get the full file dialog by clicking the file dialog icon to the right of the URL field, and using this you can access the last used directory in its path history combo box.
It would be a few lines of code to store the directory of the last successfully installed theme for the lifetime of the control module, and reuse it directly the next time 'Install theme is shown'. If someone wants to get their hands dirty, see kdebase/workspace/kcontrol/input/xcursor/themepage.cpp
Will
Thank you Will, At least that confirms that this thing can't remember where it just was. As for it being there since kde3, I never saw this thing until kde4.4 and I have installed cursor themes in every version of kde since kde2. If I was competent to code, I would give this a go, because honestly, in a modern desktop, a file open/save dialog that can't remember the last directory it was just in -- is a bug, not a lack of a feature. Should I file this as a bug or feature request at kde.org to get this fixed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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