Re: Major change in desktop handling

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On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 06:15:43PM +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 17:26, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > and file selectors would then default to
> > Documents instead of Desktop.
> 
> File selectors will default to whatever we want to default them to.
> Legacy file selectors can be fixed, certainly easier than legacy
> applications writing to $HOME. :) And in the case of a "broken" file
> selector, a simple workaround exists: Clicking on the Desktop folder
> before saving the file.
> 

Most file selectors default to whatever directory was the current working
directory when it application was started. So most will be fixed by a
"cd Desktop" the gdm gnome session (or in gnome-session or whereever).

Martin H.