Re: GWorkspace - viewer preference persistence

[Germán Arias]

On 2013-08-31 01:38:57 -0600 Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Germán Arias wrote:
>> On 2013-08-30 19:17:14 -0600 Germán Arias <german@xelalug.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, maybe I misunderstand this. If I open other viewers and then close
>> GWorkspace, when I launch it again these views are there. I thought you are
>> talking about if the viewer remember the last state and position when I 
>> launch
>> a new viewer. For example If I open a new viewer and select the Images
>> directory. After close this and open a new viewer, I thought this should 
>> show
>> the images directory.
> Sorry, no. A new viewer is a new viewer! It should open as a "new root 
> viewer" if if you open it from the menu. Of you make "open as folder" it 
> should of course open from that place directly and have that folder as root.
> 
> What should be remembered is that when you close gworkspace, it hsould 
> remember the open viewers (which it already did) but for each viewer also its 
> root path (wether "root" or another folder) and important its type (browser, 
> list, icon) the presence or not of the voncenience tab at top and even the 
> last selection for certain viewer type.
> All the latter stuff did not work (or stopped working years ago). You got N 
> viewers back, but they were all the same, all root browsers and of "column 
> browser" type.
> 
> Now you can for example go to your application folder, open it as a folder, 
> set it to icons, remove the tab ad leave it there. Quit and reopen you should 
> find it the same.

All these features works now. What I can't do still, is open the preferences
panel in Recycler.

Germán.