default directories

[Clark Jones]

Dave Peticolas wrote:
> 
> Someone recently posted a request for having a user-configurable
> default directory which the file opener would show by default.
> 
> I've been thinking about this and it seems to me that it might be
> better and more convenient just to have GnuCash use the directory
> of the last opened file. Thus, the user would not need to explicitly
> set a default directory.
> 
> Any preferences there?
> 
> dave

How about having an environment variable to define it?  That way if
someone has to "look" in other directories from time to time, but has
correctly set the environment variable in their .login or .cshrc or
whatever, they'll still be popped back to their "base" directory.

Although nothing like gnucash, the stuff that I work on in my "day"
job makes heavy use of environment variables to set various things and
allow the [ab]user to set them as [s]he sees fit -- although it takes
a bit of "explaining" to the new user, we get lots of kudos from folks
who've used it a while.  (The one downside for this is that it won't
work under M$ software that masquerades as operating systems, as far
as I know.)

						Clark
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