Re: browse startig dir

[Simon Kitching <skitching apache org>]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 10:46 +0100, Felix Obenhuber wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 10:30 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-03 at 18:05 +0100, Felix Obenhuber wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > When i start browsing my file tree e.g. want to open a file in gimv/open
> > > with etc. with some gnome apps the starting directory is always /usr/bin
> > > where the application is located. It would be great if the entry point
> > > could be set to my homedir. Is it possible to set this by a gconf key?
> > > didn't find anything...
> > > 
> > > thx and greetings
> > > Felix
> > > 
> > 
> > What version of gimp and gtk do you have?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Ryan
> 
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> Sorry i forgot. I'm using:
> 
> linux 2.6.10
> Debian testing/unstable
> gnome-session 2.8.0
> nautilus 2.8.2
> gimp 2.2.3
> gtk lib 2.4.14

Hmm..I don't see this behaviour (i'm using
gnome-2.8/linux-2.6/debian-testing).

With "gedit", I see that the file|open menu option always shows the file
selection dialog with my home directory selected. Once I've opened a
file, then the dialog comes up with the previously-used dir (sensibly),
but things always revert to my home dir after a restart.

With gimp run from a launcher on the gnome panel, I see my home dir
displayed as the initial dir.

Gimp and gedit are of course installed in /usr/bin as normal.

With "gimp" run from the command-line I see that the file|open starts up
with the application's "current working directory" as the displayed
directory. Are you perhaps launching the app with a script that does
  cd /usr/bin
  ./gimp
or similar? That would explain the problem with gimp. Your email vaguely
implies that you are having this problem with other standard gnome apps,
though.

Cheers,

Simon