[kde-linux] Working directory for Konqueror "Open with...." set to home

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday 09 October 2006 18:57, Matt Seitz wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Having the home directory as the default working directory seems to be
> > some kind of usual behaviour. Maybe because using a common user owned
> > directory as the working directory ensures that programs can write there.
>
> I'm surprised that this is the default behavior.  I expected the behavior
> to be like "bash", where the current working directory remains the current
> working directory when I launch an application.

This is what is happening. Since the file manager is started with $HOME as its 
working directory, any process launched by it also inherits $HOME as the 
working directory

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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