[Qgis-developer] Output directory

[Nathan Woodrow]

Thanks Nyall.

I didn't touch ftools and gdal tools because I had a feeling they would go
away in future

On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 5:41 pm Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 18 Feb 2016 18:38, "Paolo Cavallini" <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > a long standing issue in QGIS is the fact that several commands and core
> > plugins (not to speak about external plugins) do not honour the "last
> > used directory rule" for saving files. As a result, the behaviour is
> > unpredictable and confusing.
> > I would suggest:
> > * do a thorough revision of the default destination dir for all commands
> > (I hope this can be done programmatically)
> > * maybe adding an option "Always save in the default output directory",
> > just like the Download dir in Firefox
> > * making this the default also for external plugins.
> > Thoughts?
> > All the best.
>
> Nathan did a huge amount of work on that front during this cycle. Do you
> have specifics of any which don't behave correctly now?
>
> Also worth noting that Denis did some work implementing a reusable file
> picked widget with correct handling for all this. We just need to switch
> across all the various custom file pickers to this standard widget
> (hopefully in 2.16?)
>
> Nyall
>
>
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