On Wednesday 04 March 2015 01:30:10 am Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:19:44PM +0900, Michele Calgaro wrote:
the idea to open on the last used folder is not bad actually. Could you please file a new bug report for this? Please mark it as "enhancement". As usual it may be a while before we work on it, but at least the suggestion doesn't get lost.
Unfortunately, you can't please everyone. You can't even please anyone all the time.
There are times where I want Save As to default to the last used folder. The main place I want that is if I'm saving documents from the Web using a browser.
But when doing a Save As from an existing local document, I nearly always want the default directory to be the directory where the original file is. *Nearly* always.
That is the current behavior of kpdf, a file opened from a local directory uses that location in the save as dialog. Opening pdf's from the web /tmp is where they are downloaded to before opening...so /tmp is the default., inho /tmp should never be used as a location in the save as dialog.
I suppose in an ideal world, the computer would predict my mood and know exactly which directory to propose. Good luck with that. Firefox does something like that by default, choosing the directory according to the URL, and I hate it.
Would this be practical? Perhaps the TDE Save As dialog grow a button to return to the Last Saved location.