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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KFileDialog's broken?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-03-05 22:17:40
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On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 08:27:08PM +0000, David Faure wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > > getSaveUrl is also broken, the following crashes KMail:
> > > kmheaders.cpp-  debug( "Some one should fix
> > > KFileDialog::getSaveURL..." ); // sanders
> > > kmheaders.cpp-  KURL url = KFileDialog::getSaveURL(".", "*");
> > >
> > > I replaced the "." with "" and then the file dialog pops up but
> > > isn't usable (clicking OK doesn't do anything).
> >
> > Isn't the correct arg QString::null (last dir) or
> > QDir::currentDirPath (current dir) ? Not sure '.' works, but
> > perhaps it should/does.
>
> hmmm, we had a workaround for that to translate '.' to
> QDir::currentDirPath(), but it seems it vanished during the big
> cleanup. Will add it again.

Please reconsider whether you actually want to use the CWD. I think the 
CWD of a KDE process is completely uninteresting for the user. Better 
use the directory of the current filename or the directory last used by 
this application to save a file to.

Cheers,
Waldo

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