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Bug 229571 - make file selector remember directories based on last mime-type
make file selector remember directories based on last mime-type
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.6.x (obsolete)
Other other
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[wontfix?]
: 325958 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-28 16:23 UTC by Peter Williams
Modified: 2012-06-27 00:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Peter Williams 2002-08-28 16:23:19 UTC 
As far as I can tell, none of the mailer's file selector dialog can
remember what directories they should start in. That's really lame.

A cool thing to emulate would be galeon's per-mimetype directories for
saving files. And then I guess just use one directory for opening files.
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-08-28 19:24:15 UTC 
most of them already do. I remember adding this a while back, before
1.0 even I thought.
Comment 2 Peter Williams 2002-08-28 19:44:48 UTC 
I've never noticed this working. FWIW, the ones where I particularly
notice it are saving and adding attachments -- did you not do those?
Comment 3 Peter Williams 2002-08-28 22:02:44 UTC 
Ok, the "add attachment" dialog only saves it for the current
composer, not the current session or between sessions. Save attachment
works across sessions, but not by mime-type, which is a very nice feature.
Comment 4 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-09-13 22:19:34 UTC 
personally I think this is just a waste but whatever.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2005-05-10 13:22:56 UTC 
bug 248315 also mentions remembering the last file selector position
Comment 6 André Klapper 2006-01-06 11:52:46 UTC 
*** Bug 325958 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 André Klapper 2006-01-09 01:18:29 UTC 
updating version number
Comment 8 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:27:06 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 9 André Klapper 2012-06-26 20:47:44 UTC 
First step would be to make file selector remember last directory at all, e.g. in the Importer. Dreaming of MIME types sounds like overhead here.
Comment 10 Matthew Barnes 2012-06-27 00:29:58 UTC 
We defer to GTK+ now, which remembers for all applications.

Closing as WONTFIX.