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"Pd documents directory" isn't respected in pdnext #22

Closed jamshark70 closed 1 year ago

jamshark70 commented 1 year ago

Apparently, Pd 0.52.1 packaged for debian stores the "Pd documents directory" location not in .pdsettings, but rather in ~/.config/Pd/org.puredata.pd.pd-gui/docspath.conf along with two other files, dekenpath.conf and recentfiles.conf.

pdnext isn't looking at these configuration files. (Actually I am quite surprised to find these three files -- I'm pretty sure in the past that these options were set in .pdsettings. Oh well.)

Nor does it provide "Pd documents directory" in the Path preferences panel.

So, every time I start pdnext (and every time it gets confused about a save/load location, which is like every time you breathe funny [pd vanilla problem, not specifically pdnext]), it reverts to ~/Documents.

I don't keep Pd stuff at this level. So I am repeatedly navigating through multiple levels of subfolders to get to the actual files.

Could this very useful option perhaps be ported forward into pdnext?

sebshader commented 1 year ago

@jamshark70 if you start pd with pd-gui instead of pd for the executable name the docsdir option should work. In the next release of pdnext I hope to include the .desktop file installer and icons, in which case pdnext will open like pd vanilla 0.53 does. when the 'documents' option comes up in vanilla you're starting it via some desktop menu/shortcut, right?

jamshark70 commented 1 year ago

Oh I see... indeed, that fixes it, I changed my pdnext.desktop file to pd-gui and now it's fine.

I love scarcely- (or un-)documented folklore :grin:

sebshader commented 1 year ago

I actually had to go through the code just now to figure it out myself hehe