Re: panes.switch and working dir

tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx ha scritto:

The panes.switch process includes a call to library-function chdir(). Here the 
CWD does change, and there's been no change to the relevant code since 0.5 
release. What happens if you
 panes.switch; pwd; file-roller -h %P; panes.switch?

(%P is effectively the same as %D/%F)


Didn't know, thanks...
I already tried with "cd %D", but the console reports "No item selected Failed to expand macros". pwd doesn't affect anything, maybe because it actually only prints working directory. It wouldn't have worked anyway, given what I say below.
I've just tested file-roller a bit, it seems that the -h option does not work as we might expect. Even the --default-dir=... option does not help.
It seems file-roller inherits the working directory from the actual file location (doing file-roller -h ../dir/file.zip extracts it in ../dir and not 'here'), you mean that? That's the point! panes.switch works perfectly! Yes, it has a somewhat illogically strict behaviour (just like many GNOME apps? :P), but I find it useful, because it manages a lot of different archive formats at one time. It also uses Gtk, and my (very lightweight) desktop is strongly Gtk based. Ark is way more rational, e.g. it has a dedicated --guess-name option to extract in a subfolder with the archive name, while file-roller can do this only via the --extract-here option. I would prefer not to start all the KDE stuff to only extract an archive... Xarchiver doesn't do what I want. 


Regards
Tom


Thanks,
Giancarlo


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