Hallo, Martin Peach hat gesagt: // Martin Peach wrote: > >>Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >What folder were you working in when you create a new patch? What if > >there are no other patches open? What if there are many patches open in > >many different folders? > > > > I usually open pd from inside ~/pd_patches and have subdirectories in there. > If I make a new patch it's often interacting with another patch already in > the same folder.
I do this as well and I think it would be *very irritating* if Pd would default to some directory different from the one I started Pd from. Btw: If I start Pd from the window manager, new patches automatically get saved to $HOME (because $HOME is the current working directory of the window manager and everything else after logging in), so there's no need to change anything on Linux. > >Before, on Mac OS X at least, it defaulted to "/". I've changed that to > >"~", which I think is a lot more useful. Perhaps it could be like this: > > > >- if no other patches open, then "~". > >- if other patches are open, then use the folder of the current top window > > Yes, that's better, using "~" as default. And any new patch is most likely > to be saved in the folder of the topmost already-open patch. And the default > directory should also be a specifiable option in the preferences somewhere, > not hard-coded, in the interest of total control. How is it decided what's the topmost patch? Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
