A number of people have found that the "savedir" option in Tux Paint
isn't suitable for them, because all of their students share the same
remotely-mounted filesystem.

An easy way to get around this would be a simple GUI that asked for
a username and then set the savedir to "R:\remote\$username\",
rather than just having everyone's Tux Paint save in "R:\remote\".

I can think of a very easy way of doing this in Linux... use "kdialog"
in KDE, along with a trivial BASH shell script.

Unfortunately, I haven't the foggiest how one does this in Windows
(or on Mac, for that matter).


Should we create platform-specific solutions for this?
(One for Linux, one for Windows, one for Mac, etc.)

Or should we perhaps instead create a new simple FLTK GUI that teachers
can set up, and then kids can use to pick their name from a drop-down?


In the meantime, I guess I'll play with kdialog to see if I can at least
prototype what the interface should look like.  :^)


-bill!
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