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Mark wrote: > Which idiot came up with the idea of save dialogs? I mean, I have a > finder window open here (Explorer, I can see you from here, wipe that grin > off your face - you do this too.) It *is* the representation of that > directory on the file system. It should be to me one and the same thing. What I dislike about file access dialogs are the ones that try to 'remember' where you saved the previous file, but don't distinguish between 'open' and 'save'. I've noted this on too many applications to pick out a specific one to blame. It's very annoying to plan to open several files in a row, do something with them, and then save the results elsewhere. If you open a file in/some/very/nested/directory/structure, and save it in a/different/long/location, the open should remain linked to the first location, or at least some sort of shortcut should be available for it, since I suppose there are people in the habit of opening the files they just saved. With me, I think that 90% of the time I'm manually batch processing...usually saving a bunch of windows-format documents in to a standard. On odd file access dialogs, I've often wondered why gcombust (at least the version I've got--0.1.47) selects a starting directory the way it does. I think it's probably a bug since it doesn't make much sense as a feature. If you select files and directories, and then burn them on CD, then return to select (to put on another CD), the working directory the last directory in your previous input. Not the last directory you were selecting from, but the last directory from the list you selected to burn.
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