> > I am just not understanding what behaviour that you desire. > > The above was no criticism of the current behavior I was only stating > the facts, i.e. that channels created with the GUI will not always end > up in the channels dir.
No problem. Just easier for me to make a solution that fits with cases that can be solved programatically: if I type in this to the dialog, I want it to perform this, if I do this, I want it to do this. > > Another option would be to just remove the "Specify filename" option entirely and > > replace it with an small icon of a despot :-) > > Well, since this tool is for the "normal" user this might be a good > idea (minus the despot icon:) That is, always give the Plucker document > the same name as the channel and put it in the channel dir. That would > work just fine for 99% of the users. If you want to be a bit more > flexible you could allow the user to specify a different name, but > still save the document in the channels dir (if a path is specified > it could be removed, so that only the basename is left intact). > > > This could still be solved using only one option, i.e. a field with > the name (default would be the "autogenerated" name). So just a single box, it saves always saves to its channel dir? I don't mind. More powerful users might when their key gets changed after they set it up a location by hand and it loads and gets remapped to channels. If someone has entered some absolute filename to point to somewhere else, then just forget that case (let them get it there with the copy to dir option), or if they are using command line and use to having it output to plucker dir, load up desktop and it now starts going to channel subdir? > I wouldn't mind if we also changed this to be the document name (and > filename) instead of using the channel name as the document name, e.g. > I could have a channel for some online magazine that change every month > and by only changing the name of the document once every a month I > could create separate documents using the same channel. The default > name would still be to equal to the channel name and if the user > doesn't change it we will more or less have the same behavior as today. Sure, just lay it out for me of a blow by blow of the program flow you want, or just modify the files directly (I'll put in a last commit tonight and will be taking a rest after today for a few days, and be working on the rest of the docs instead.) Best wishes, Robert
