[Pkg-ROX-devel] Bug#325333: this is a non-issue

[Alexander Toresson]

On 11/16/05, Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie at debian.org> wrote:
> severity 325333 wishlist
> thanks
>
> Package: rox-filer
> Version: 2.3-1
> Followup-For: Bug #325333
>
> Sorry for the long delay, anyway:
>
> Running applications in that way is a poor strategy, and I doubt upstream
> would change working dir to manage those kind of things.

I consider this to be very convenient. I just have to double-click on
an archive to extract it.

> You can:
>
> - write a better script to auto-create a working directory whenever you want.

Yes, that's a possibility. However, I'd consider it a work-around (for
suggested solution, see below). Also, I do not have the necessary bash
scripting knowledge to create such a script.

> - use a better archiver than tar.

The thing is that I mostly use this to extract files downloaded from
the net, and thus I can't choose what archiver the files are archived
with.

> both strategies are acceptable.
>
> In general there are as many reasons to runs script starting from home as
> reasons to run them from the 'current' directory (what ever it is).
> I would close this report, indeed...

With the current directory I mean the directory where the file I
double click on is.
A compromise would be to add check box that determines if the command
is run from home or the file's directory.

Regards, Alexander Toresson