Jan-Uwe Finck writes:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:10:21AM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, in looking into these things, I noticed
> > that we have a config variable GNC_CONFIGDIR
> > which we really aren't using. There is a note
> > in Makefile.in to the effect that it ends up
> > being /etc/gnucash and that this is a bad place
> > to put config files. Why is that? Seems like
> > a fine place to put config files.
>
> And I would suggest to include something like 'save preferences', which
> I have to repeat now everytime I restart GnuCash.
>
This is a good idea. In fact, it's probably reasonably high up the
"missing things that are annoying me" list at the moment. If nobody
else does, I'll tackle it reasonably soon (there are a couple of other
little changes I want to make first).
> Oh, and could we include a dialog for choosing a default directory for
> the files ?
> In the moment it's the cureent or the home-directory of the user, but
> this is not where I would put my financial-files.
>
> Just an idea.. ( I know I should learn to code and do it on my own,
> but I'm not that good yet.. ;-) )
I'm not convinced this is such a good idea. In my experience,
programs almost always default to the directory that they are started
in. Changing this would probably confuse new users.
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