On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Maximilian Albert
<maximilian.albert@...1439...> wrote:
Hi all,
as of rev. 22010 the "Save as ..." and "Save a copy ..." dialogs
should now remember the last used directories and file extensions
independently of each other (this closes at least LP #184655, #386292,
and perhaps even a few more, I haven't checked yet). It took me a
while to understand how the different OS-specific file dialogs are
implemented, and I hope I got it right. But please test extensively
and let me know if there are any problems. This particularly applies
to Windows users since I cannot test the changes there.
I'll test it now. Results should be forthcoming in under an hour.
P.S.: I believe the export dialog doesn't remember its own path yet
althouth I modified some parts in the corresponding source files, too.
But it just occurred to me that there is an #ifdef in file.cpp to
choose between different types of export dialogs, so I probably
modified the wrong part. Anyway, my question is: Is it desired to
store the path in the Export dialog at all, at least for the Page and
Drawing tabs?
The export dialogue does it differently; if exporting the whole drawing or an object, that object saves its own path, which can be a bit of a nuisance cross-platform - e.g. one of the inkscape website designs I was looking at was then automatically setting it to /home/..., but generally that's very useful. So to answer your question, yes it is desired to store the path, but I think it already does for Page and it does for Drawing, inside the inkscape namespace in the SVG. I'm happy with how it does it (or did before you committed anyhow in case you changed it.)
You probably knew that anyway :P