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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0001588 | FreeCAD | Feature | public | 2014-06-21 13:39 | 2016-10-16 16:04 |
| Reporter | bgoodr | Assigned To | wmayer | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | Linux | OS | Debian | OS Version | 7.4 (wheezy) |
| Fixed in Version | 0.17 | ||||
| Summary | 0001588: File browser dialogs initial starting directory ignores current working directory | ||||
| Description | The file browser dialogs are the dialog boxes that show up for these operations: - Save - Save As - Open When those dialog boxes are displayed, there is a starting directory that the file browser dialog shows to allow the user to browse within. This ticket is about how that startup directory should change and when. At invoke, the starting directory needs to be the processes current working directory, not the users HOME directory, and should be initially be completely unrelated to any previously saved file in some other directory (e.g., not related to the files in the Recent Files List). In this case, the UNIX user cd's into a directory for a reason: That reason is that the application that is then run should be viewing files relative to that directory. Later on, if the user does the following operations, that new directory should be the directory used in subsequent file browser dialogs: - Uses File/Save As... to save the drawing into a different directory, or, - Uses File/Open and navigates to a different directory and opens a drawing there, or, - Selects an existing file from the Recent Files List. This almost seems like an enhancement request. But it is not: Ignoring the users current working directory at startup reduces useability of the tool on a operating system where that current working directory is used to manage different projects in different directories simply by cd'ing into the different project directory and reinvoking the tool. Insisting the user manage things from the Recent Files list alone is not scalable. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | From the Linux shell prompt, cd into some directory other than the users HOME directory. e.g.,: cd /tmp Invoke FreeCAD without any options. Click on "Create a new Empty document". Select the Part workbench. At this point my filename is "Unamed : 1". I have not added any objects. First thing I want to do is save that file. I clicked File menu then Save. The dialog box I see displayed is not in the directory I was in when I invoked the executable, but in my home directory. | ||||
| Additional Information | http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6825&p=55121#p55121 Build info: OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7.4 (wheezy) Word size: 64-bit Version: 0.14.3677 (Git) Branch: master Hash: 07c64e206d05ae662ba40ae125ba991cced7cc9e Python version: 2.7.3 Qt version: 4.8.2 Coin version: 3.1.3 SoQt version: 1.5.0 OCC version: 6.5.2 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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FreeCAD: master b322668d 2016-10-16 17:35:08 Details Diff |
issue 0001588: File browser dialogs initial starting directory ignores current working directory |
Affected Issues 0001588 |
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| mod - src/Gui/Application.cpp | Diff File | ||
| mod - src/Gui/FileDialog.cpp | Diff File | ||
| mod - src/Gui/FileDialog.h | Diff File | ||
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FreeCAD: master 13298573 2016-10-16 18:03:45 Details Diff |
issue 0001588: File browser dialogs initial starting directory ignores current working directory |
Affected Issues 0001588 |
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| mod - src/Gui/Application.cpp | Diff File | ||
| mod - src/Gui/FileDialog.cpp | Diff File | ||
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-21 13:39 | bgoodr | New Issue | |
| 2014-06-21 14:18 | yorik | Category | Bug => Feature |
| 2014-06-21 14:19 | yorik | Note Added: 0004760 | |
| 2016-10-16 15:35 | wmayer | Changeset attached | => FreeCAD Master master b322668d |
| 2016-10-16 16:04 | wmayer | Changeset attached | => FreeCAD Master master 13298573 |
| 2016-10-16 16:04 | wmayer | Status | new => closed |
| 2016-10-16 16:04 | wmayer | Assigned To | => wmayer |
| 2016-10-16 16:04 | wmayer | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2016-10-16 16:04 | wmayer | Fixed in Version | => 0.17 |
