There might be a solution, but I don't know it.  I think I may asked about
this myself a long time ago.

You have a couple options.  Submit an enhancement request.  (Posting here
doesn't get it in the system, but it may interest someone in making the
change if it is compelling to them.)

It is generally helpful to your cause to be persuasive, not unfriendly, or
angry.  Keep in mind that Dia (as it is with open source software) exists
because the developers give away their work; perhaps they like to, maybe it
helps them solve their own problems, and so on.  If you are annoying they
might drag there feet out of ornery-ness, you never know.  Be mindful that
you are a supplicant, not a boss.

It is not useful to be antagonistic.  If any of Dia's developers had found
your particular complaint as bad as you find it, they would have fixed it
already.  But, apparently they found adapting their work flow sufficient.

Your best option, might be to program the fix yourself.  At least that is
an option when you are using free software.


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:

> I keep my dia diagrams in ~/diagrams, is there any way to make the
> File-Open menu go direct to this directory?  It's very annoying to
> have to navigate from the top level every time I go to get another
> diagram.
>
> Dia doesn't even remember where the last file was opened, just about
> every other application does do this. One very often wants to open a
> number of files save in the same place and if it's a long way down a
> directory hierarchy and rememebering where the last file came from
> makes this much quicker/easier.
>
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