I was hoping to perhaps provoke discussion of the new behavior of the file dialog. Prior to this patch:
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-cvs/2002/06/0028.html
the default behavior was to start the open file dialog in the current directory. After the patch, the default behavior is to start in the C:\My Documents directory, though this can be changed with a registry key.
While this is the default behavior on Windows, I am not sure that wine should copy this behavior so precisely. I personally think that the old behavior was better. I would think that very few Linux users would actually use the C:\My Documents directory. But perhaps my own preferences are coloring my views. I think the command line oriented nature of Linux would call for a occasional differences in behavior.
Duane
--- Duane Clark dclark@akamail.com wrote:
I was hoping to perhaps provoke discussion of the new behavior of the file dialog. Prior to this patch:
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-cvs/2002/06/0028.html
the default behavior was to start the open file dialog in the current directory. After the patch, the default behavior is to start in the C:\My Documents directory, though this can be changed with a registry key.
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I think this is a correct behavior of the file dialog. If an application is started with an icon what's the sense of having e.g. starting directory for Word it's binary directory? On other hand I agree with you that default directory value should be set not to C:\My Documents, but to the home directory. We currently map the user home directory to one of the drive letters. You can submit a patch to the default Wine registry to point the default document directory to the home directory drive.
Andriy
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Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
I think this is a correct behavior of the file dialog. If an application is started with an icon what's the sense of having e.g. starting directory for Word it's binary directory?
Well, I guess I have (almost) never started a wine app by clicking an icon. Perhaps I am atypical.
On other hand I agree with you that default directory value should be set not to C:\My Documents, but to the home directory. We currently map the user home directory to one of the drive letters. You can submit a patch to the default Wine registry to point the default document directory to the home directory drive.
I don't see an easy way to do that, as the registry seems to be rather picky. If I stick "~" in the registry, it comes up in C:\windows\desktop. How it came up with that I don't know. Trying "HOME" (the label in config) comes up in "My Computer". For that matter, so does "D:".
Only a precise entry, like "D:\" works for me, so I don't know of an automatic way to tell the registry where home is.
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Duane Clark