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Subject: Launching programs from Konqueror/filemanager
From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date: 2006-10-09 19:21:22
Message-ID: 200610092121.22852.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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Hi,
When launching a program from Konqueror as a filemanager, e.g. clicking on a
PDF launches KDPF, it passes the file path or URL (depending on the program's
capabilities) but leaves the working directory set to $HOME.
A recent question [1] on kde-linux shows that some users do not expect this
behaviour, so the question is: do you have any observations/recommendations
on how this should be handled?
I searched the KDE bug database and the most recent entry regarding this is
[2]
However it applies to special case, i.e. launching a program itself, not
handing a file over to a different application.
I am not sure if these two cases are distinguisable enough, but in the past
the "launching program itself" seems to have decided the fate of similar
reports [3]
Actually one of the comments in [3] sound like a good case _for_ changing of
the working directory: a lot of applications will use the working directory
as the default for their file dialogs
[1] http://lists.kde.org/?t=116016305600001&r=1&w=2&n=7
[2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131010
[3] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35434
Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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