On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote:

On 07-06-11 21:38, Johan Engelen wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'd like some usabilty input for this bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/791098
>
> It requests an option to have the Save a Copy dialog always open in the
> current document's directory. The Save As... dialog already has this
> option (preferences > save).
>
> Should I add an option below the Save As... dialog option in the
> preference dialog, or should I use the same setting for both dialogs?
> The reason I ask, is that I am a little afraid of adding yet another
> option...

As krzysztof said it's probably safe to reuse the same setting, but... I
can imagine that someone has a workflow where he uses "Save a copy" as
export and wants to put his exported files directly into a different
directory. Or a similar workflow where save a copy is used to do a kind
of versioning (possibly not a good idea, but it's not unlikely that
people do use it like this).

So how about technically making it a different option but letting it
default to whatever "Save as" does and not exposing it in the dialog for
now. I think as long as we don't explicitly set the option it should not
be written out to the preferences and so should simply follow the "Save
as" option. And this way it would be extraordinarily easy to later
change it to expose the other option, and even before that people could
use a work-around immediately if they run into trouble.

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