TDE R14, Debian Jessie
I download & open a pdf file with kpdf from a vendor, happens automagically, kpdf is set as default app for pdf.
I go to 'file>save as" , the save as dialog always starts at /tmp...then I have to navigate to the dir with saved pdf's...this is a deep dir structure...I would prefer to have 'save as' open the last used dir...or something..is this configurable?
Greg Madden wrote:
I go to 'file>save as" , the save as dialog always starts at /tmp...then I have to navigate to the dir with saved pdf's...this is a deep dir
One option is to add that folder to the 'save as' folder menu. There's an 'add entry' option when you right click with the mouse over the menu (F9 to show/hide it).
Thanks, that is helpfull.
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On Monday 02 March 2015 02:21:49 pm Dave Lers wrote:
Greg Madden wrote:
I go to 'file>save as" , the save as dialog always starts at /tmp...then I have to navigate to the dir with saved pdf's...this is a deep dir
One option is to add that folder to the 'save as' folder menu. There's an 'add entry' option when you right click with the mouse over the menu (F9 to show/hide it).
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On 03/03/2015 09:44 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
I go to 'file>save as" , the save as dialog always starts at
/tmp...then I
Actually that's not correct. The "Save as" dialog opens in the folder where the current pdf is saved.
Cheers Michele
On 03/03/2015 02:52 PM, Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 03/03/2015 09:44 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
I go to 'file>save as" , the save as dialog always starts at
/tmp...then I
Actually that's not correct. The "Save as" dialog opens in the folder where the current pdf is saved.
It is correct if kpdf was opened by an email program. The file actually gets saved in /tmp, then kpdf opens it from there, so that's where it thinks you want to save it. At least, that's how it works for me.
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:32:41PM -0800, Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 03/03/2015 02:52 PM, Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 03/03/2015 09:44 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
I go to 'file>save as" , the save as dialog always starts at
/tmp...then I
Actually that's not correct. The "Save as" dialog opens in the folder where the current pdf is saved.
It is correct if kpdf was opened by an email program. The file actually gets saved in /tmp,
That will depend on the email program. All anyone needs to do is find one, just one, email program which uses some other temporary location to save attachments, say /var/tmp for example, and your statement will be wrong.
"kpdf Save As defaults to /tmp when opened from an email program" is incorrect because there is, or might be some day, an email program which doesn't use /tmp. Even if it happens to be correct now, it is merely contingently true, it is true only by the accident that email programs save attachments in /tmp when you open them.
But Michele's comment that kpdf defaults to opening Save As in the location where the document is currently saved remains true no matter what program you use.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But Michele's comment that kpdf defaults to opening Save As in the location where the document is currently saved remains true no matter what program you use.
Isn't Konqueror /var/tmp > ~/Documents? There seems to be no option to change it, and no 'last used' functionality, it's always ~/Documents.
On Tuesday 03 March 2015 01:52:25 pm Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 03/03/2015 09:44 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
I go to 'file>save as" , the save as dialog always starts at
/tmp...then I
Actually that's not correct. The "Save as" dialog opens in the folder where the current pdf is saved.
Cheers Michele
My post was not explicit, 'download & open" in my use and question: I use a web browser to access vendors web sites containing pdf files of their products.
If I click on the pdf file on their site, it opens with kpdf, I then save it with the 'save as dialog' which always defaults to /tmp..which is where the file is downloaded to before opening apparently. No matter if it is the 3rd, 10th..100th pdf downloaded and opened.
As a comparison, evince will offer to 'save as' to the last directory used, very usefull when dealing with lots of pdf files..which in my line of work, is how documents are provided.... and why I asked if kpdf could be configured to save as to something other than /tmp.
Adding another location to the save as dialog reduces the amount of effort...not uite what i would like to see the best option of my pdf reader client..but helpful.
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On 2015/03/04 09:40 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Tuesday 03 March 2015 01:52:25 pm Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 03/03/2015 09:44 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
I go to 'file>save as" , the save as dialog always starts at
/tmp...then I
Actually that's not correct. The "Save as" dialog opens in the folder where the current pdf is saved.
Cheers Michele
My post was not explicit, 'download & open" in my use and question: I use a web browser to access vendors web sites containing pdf files of their products.
If I click on the pdf file on their site, it opens with kpdf, I then save it with the 'save as dialog' which always defaults to /tmp..which is where the file is downloaded to before opening apparently. No matter if it is the 3rd, 10th..100th pdf downloaded and opened.
As a comparison, evince will offer to 'save as' to the last directory used, very usefull when dealing with lots of pdf files..which in my line of work, is how documents are provided.... and why I asked if kpdf could be configured to save as to something other than /tmp.
Adding another location to the save as dialog reduces the amount of effort...not uite what i would like to see the best option of my pdf reader client..but helpful.
Hi Greg, 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.
Cheers Michele
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.
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.
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.
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On 2015/03/04 08:17 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
Would this be practical? Perhaps the TDE Save As dialog grow a button to
return to the Last Saved location.
That is quite a good suggestion. Let's say: 1) default to current dir 2.a) have a button available to select the last folder or 2.b) have a combo box available to choose from the last 10 used folders.
Cheers Michele
Michele Calgaro composed on 2015-03-04 21:24 (UTC+0900):
That is quite a good suggestion. Let's say:
- default to current dir
2.a) have a button available to select the last folder or 2.b) have a combo box available to choose from the last 10 used folders.
What I miss most since leaving OS/2: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/filepicker-xfile-os2open.png
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