Bug 465611

Summary: Improvement: Change the app to remember the last location visited or relevant to the current activity.
Product: [Applications] Elisa Reporter: Scott <shagooserver>
Component: generalAssignee: Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 22.08.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Attachments: attachment-1635462-0.html

Description Scott 2023-02-12 05:01:39 UTC 
SUMMARY
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Currently, if for example I want to save a playlist the save location automatically selected is ~/Music which is useless and tome consuming to me as I store my music on a separate disk.
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Attempt to save a playlist. 
2. 
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
The file manager pops up open at the systems default music folder.

EXPECTED RESULT
That the file manager pops up open at the current file or folder location.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-31-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7C35
System Version: 2.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-02-12 18:30:43 UTC 
It remembers the last-used save location.

What location are you expecting the save dialog to show by default?
Comment 2 Scott 2023-02-12 23:23:52 UTC 
Created attachment 156176 [details]
attachment-1635462-0.html

To cover all situations it would be best to enable the user to specify a
location other than ~/music. For example I would
use /mnt/data2/Vaults/Music Vault/ as that is where my music is.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 2:30 AM Nate Graham <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>
wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465611
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> Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed:
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>          Resolution|---                         |WAITINGFORINFO
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> --- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> ---
> It remembers the last-used save location.
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> What location are you expecting the save dialog to show by default?
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Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-02-13 00:38:25 UTC 
In general apps don't let you specify the default location for open or save dialogs; instead they simply remember the last location you did browse to. And Elisa already does that. So I think this is fine the way it is, and adding a specific setting to choose a default location isn't a thing we want to do because it would be configuration overkill, especially for an app like Elisa that's designed to be simple and have behaviors consistent with other apps.