Bug 118180

Summary:	add project directory to run options
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Luser <yahoomailguard2004-main>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Luser 2005-12-12 14:16:31 UTC

Version:           3.3 (using KDE 3.5.0 Level "a" , SUSE 9.2 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-24.18-smp

Add to Project Options/Run Options/Directory: 'Run from the project directory'.

It would be useful to have a non-absolute-hard-coded directory independent from configuration (build) and binary (install) directories, for example .kdevelop path.

Comment 1 Amilcar do Carmo Lucas 2005-12-12 14:22:01 UTC

Well you have the "custom directory" why don't you use that ??

Comment 2 Luser 2005-12-12 15:31:24 UTC

Sorry, my fault, custom directory never worked for me with relative paths so I wrongly assumed it only allows absolute paths.

Then it is a bug:

Setting a relative path as custom directory in the UI dialog is stored correctly in .kdevelop, but target program working directory is not set. Also opening UI dialog again does not restore directory (field is blank).

However, editing .kdevelop by hand, setting 'customdirectory' to 'path' and opening and running with kdevelop does work (say 'path' in ('data', 'data/', './data', './data/').

Comment 3 Tranquillity 2006-03-31 16:00:17 UTC

Hello, this seems similar to bug #70800

Comment 4 Jens Dagerbo 2006-04-04 16:14:27 UTC

Not sure if it's a dupe, but apparently it's a bug. 

Changing severity.

Comment 5 Jens Dagerbo 2007-01-01 15:48:20 UTC

I'm changing my mind on this one..

'Run from the BUILD directory' and 'Run from the directory where the executable is' were designed to be relative paths, inside the project directory tree.
'Custom directory' was designed to be an absolute path.

Requests for extensions to this behaviour are wishes, not bugs.

Comment 6 Andreas Pakulat 2008-06-30 20:14:06 UTC

its a plain edit field nowadays so this isn't applicable anymore.