Clark Jones writes:
> 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.)
We've largely gone down the route of making things configurable from
the GUI. The items that aren't configurable from the UI are mostly
things that only GnuCash would use.
While I know that many of us would prefer to have things configurable
from the command line or from config files, we've gone down the
GUI-configurable route for the benefit of our less computer-savvy
users and there's no reason not to be consistent, IMHO.
So, if you do decide to make it configurable, make it configurable
from the GUI.
My 4 Pacific Pesetas worth :)
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