Bug 376319

Summary:	Projects base directory not saved
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Wouter Haffmans <wouter>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	anton, kfunk, n3wance
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.5.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Wouter Haffmans 2017-02-10 21:00:04 UTC

The "Projects base directory" setting is not saved correctly. Every time KDevelop is restarted, it resets to $HOME/projects instead of whatever I picked before.

To reproduce:
- Go to Settings->Configure KDevelop->Projects
- Change the "Projects base directory" setting
- Quit and restart KDevelop

Expected:
Setting is remembered and used when creating a new/opening an existing project

Actual:
Setting is reset after restart.

Comment 1 Kevin Funk 2017-02-14 08:56:14 UTC

Problem is: This is a per-session setting.

At some point we changed it from a global setting to a per-session setting. In my opinion we should make it a global setting again.

Annoyed by the current behavior as well...

Comment 2 Anton Anikin 2017-03-02 07:42:03 UTC

> In my opinion we should make it a global setting again.
+1

Comment 3 n3wance 2020-06-18 06:16:52 UTC

As a new user, this has been very confusing, it took a lot of searching to learn that yes, this was *intended* behavior. I would very much like to see the projects base directory changed to being a global variable and not per session.

Part of my confusion was that while not having an active session, every time I rebooted and reopened kdevelop the setting had changed back to the default.