> I disagree on this one. The paths are presented relative to the home > directory, > and relative to the data directory on purpose. What you have in the dropdown > is a set of roots, not a set of bookmarks. > There already not much space in the file chooser, having it > display "c:\documents and settings\" would waste quite a bit of it.
No biggie, it was a minor point. And you're right, when the path gets too long it wouldn't be a good thing. Sold! Thanks, Mike Pumphrey OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org On 11/12/2010 9:05 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Mike Pumphrey<[email protected]> wrote: >> Right you are, Andrea; I had this running in Tomcat, which is indeed >> installed as a service. >> >> Just tried again running as "me" (had to get over the mental block of doing >> it this way, which always involves debugging for me). And the home >> directory works as advertised. > > Ok, then I have to remove it in case the home is equal to one of the other > roots > >> The only thing I notice that's a bit odd is >> the displayed directories. The home directory is displayed for me only as >> "Mike/". It would be nice if the full path were displayed there, and not >> just that one directory. Ditto with the Data directory, which only shows >> "data_dir/". That may be a matter of prompt taste (my prompt has the full >> path at all times), but since the folder chooser drills down and displays >> multiple directories as it goes ("data_dir/ data/"), it would be nice to be >> consistent. > > I disagree on this one. The paths are presented relative to the home > directory, > and relative to the data directory on purpose. What you have in the dropdown > is a set of roots, not a set of bookmarks. > There already not much space in the file chooser, having it > display "c:\documents and settings\" would waste quite a bit of it. > > In the specific case of the data directory the paths you get back from the > chooser are relative, so it makes sense to show them as relative as well. > >> As for the service situation, if you could remove duplicates from the list, >> that would be a bonus. Home directory doesn't have much meaning in a >> service context. > > Yup, agreed. > > Cheers > Andrea > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Ing. Andrea Aime > Senior Software Engineer > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584962313 > fax: +39 0584962313 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > > ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
