Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-04 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:16 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: I would really like that the save-as file selector would _not_ open on the obvious places, but open in the current directory (you know, it's called current for a reason). I couldn't agree more. I find this

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-04 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 17:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: It's also infuriating that every time I need to store a file using one of the standard file dialogues, e.g. from Firefox, I have to navigate to the right place *every time*. Even within the same session of the app, there's no

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:29 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: When I open a document from Evince (File-Open) I always get a window that says this: The folder contents could not be displayed Error stating file '/home/frankcox/Documents': No such file or directory I don't have a directory called

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:29 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: When I open a document from Evince (File-Open) I always get a window that says this: The folder contents could not be displayed Error stating file '/home/frankcox/Documents': No such file or directory I don't

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:53:17 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: What you say is strange. Documents is one of the directories created by the system in every home directory. I don't like that behaviour -- I have my own scheme for home directory organization that I've been using for some time and I have

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:16 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Besides, things are done in an inconsistent manner. For example, if I start gnome-terminal from the menus in a Gnome session it will start in $HOME. But, if I start it from the menus in a KDE session it will

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Ed Greshko wrote: Besides, things are done in an inconsistent manner. For example, if I start gnome-terminal from the menus in a Gnome session it will start in $HOME. But, if I start it from the menus in a KDE session it will start in $HOME/Documents. To change the behavior I need to edit

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:16 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Besides, things are done in an inconsistent manner. For example, if I start gnome-terminal from the menus in a Gnome session it will start in $HOME. But, if I start it from the

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 00:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:29 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: When I open a document from Evince (File-Open) I always get a window that says this: The folder contents could not be displayed Error stating file

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 08:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: And, to boot, someone also thought is was a good idea to name files with uppercase names in an O/S that is case sensitive. :-( Yeah! :-\ I'm getting a bit sick of this following the worst examples set (by Microsoft). We even see

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:33:24 +1030 Tim wrote: documents is not a substitute for data, or simply files. If it's not a document it's NOT a bloody document. Got any documentation to back that up? *tee hee* -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:33 +1030, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 08:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: And, to boot, someone also thought is was a good idea to name files with uppercase names in an O/S that is case sensitive. :-( Yeah! :-\ I'm getting a bit sick of this following the

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:33 +1030, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 08:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: And, to boot, someone also thought is was a good idea to name files with uppercase names in an O/S that is case sensitive. :-( Yeah! :-\ I'm getting a

Evince home directory

2009-11-02 Thread Frank Cox
When I open a document from Evince (File-Open) I always get a window that says this: The folder contents could not be displayed Error stating file '/home/frankcox/Documents': No such file or directory I don't have a directory called Documents. Is the default directory name hard-coded into

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-02 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:29 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: When I open a document from Evince (File-Open) I always get a window that says this: The folder contents could not be displayed Error stating file '/home/frankcox/Documents': No such file or directory I don't have a directory called

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:44:38 +1030 Tim wrote: For system-wide configuration, see: /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults Aha! That's the solution, indeed. For an individual user, you can edit the file ~.config/user-dirs.dirs to reflect the directories that you actually want to