xffm settings and mcs

[edscott wilson garcia]

Hi Olivier,

El sáb, 10-05-2003 a las 11:07, Olivier Fourdan escribió:
> 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.

I admit that I never really use it, but it is a feature of xftree which
was added upon request. It's very easy to disable if you want. 

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

xftree didn't have bookmarks, but xffm does, so it might not be all that
useful to keep. Feel free to cut it out. I don't even use it ;-)

saludos,

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