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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: file name for pdf/ps files
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer s <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-23 15:41:59
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David Faure wrote:

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> On Friday 23 August 2002 11:06, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>> The working directory of the document is unknown to KDEPrint,
>> except if the application changes its current directory to the
>> directory of a document on opening. Then KDEPrint can access it
>> through QDir::currentDirectory().
> 
> IMHO the semantics of a CWD don't make much sense in a GUI application.
> 
>> Another possibility would be to add a method KPrinter::setDocDir()
>> to let an app specify the target directory. If not set, then use
>> some default dir (like the home dir).
Please consider the different "temporary Directories"
kfile takes /tmp/kde-<user>/ as temporary directory which to my opinion is 
where KDE stores it's temporary files of the user and the user shouldn't go 
there.
A user probably want's to save temporary files into ~/tmp.
cu
ferdinand
> 
> Sounds good to me. Consistent with the other KPrinter methods like
> setDocName, which the app can call for a better KPrinter behaviour
> (but without which everything still works, nothing critical).
> 
> - --
> David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
> http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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