xffm settings and mcs

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Edscott,

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 17:46, edscott wilson garcia wrote:

> I believe you have two different things confused. Using the command line
> to pass a base_dir is not the "home_dir" in the settings. The home_dir
> sets the directory which xffm goes to when the "home" button (or
> keyboard ctrl-home) is pressed. If no base dir is specified it will
> default to home_dir. The base dir is only used once at startup and, as
> you noted, is not a setting. I think the mix up is due to the fact that
> some time ago there was a xffm-bug where specifying the base_dir would
> set the home_dir to base_dir, but that was fixed, AFAIK. 

>From a usability standpoint, changing the home dir doesn't make sense,
and will probably confuse most newcomers.

As for being able to go directly to a directory, I guess that's what
bookmarks are for....

Cheers,
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
http://www.xfce.org