[kepler-dev] [Bug 5052] default file open directory of Kepler 2.0

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5052

Christopher Brooks <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
                 CC|                            |cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu
         Resolution|DUPLICATE                   |
   Target Milestone|Unspecified                 |2.4.0
           Severity|enhancement                 |minor

--- Comment #2 from Christopher Brooks <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> 2012-06-15 20:27:47 PDT ---
I'm reopening this because there is some confusion about what directory
Kepler opens with File->Open.

The initial discussion was about the demos, but this bug is really about
File->Open

There is a bug here because the configuration.xml file defines
_alternateDefaultOpenDirectory
which does not work.

I'm marking this for consideration for 2.4.0.

BTW, I'm not that happy with the default file open directory
being $HOME/KeplerData/Workflows/MyWorkflows.

It smacks of the lame way that Windows used to put things in 
C:\Documents and Settings\cxh\My Documents
or what ever it was.

The problem here is that if I open a workflow with:
ant run -Dworkflow=/Users/cxh/Downloads/cachedmethod-leak.xml 

Then I would expect that File->Open would open a File Browser in the
same directory as the model or in the current directory, not in
some application-specific fold that will only be a good idea for a brand-new
user who does not know how to manage files.

Anyway, back to the bug.

There was this 2/9/2012 email to Kepler-dev
--start--
We are trying to change the default open directory for kepler: the only 
parameter we found is _alternateDefaultOpenDirectory
in common/configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler/configuration.xml, but changing 
it did not have any effect. Are we doing something wrong?
--end--

common/configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler/configuration.xml
says:      <!--                                                                 
       Specify an alternative default directory to open when File|Open is       
       first called; It is assumed that this directory is inside the $KEPLER   
       directory called in the ptolemy/gui/Top class.
       We now default to DotKeplerManager.getPersistentDir (~/KeplerData) if
this
       is not set (currently what we want). See KeplerInitializer. -derik
3.23.2010       
        <property name="_alternateDefaultOpenDirectory" value=""
                class="ptolemy.kernel.util.StringAttribute" />
-->

However, setting the value to say "ptolemy" does not cause the $KEPLER/ptolemy
to be the default directory that will be opened, 

build-area/src/org/kepler/util/DotKeplerManager.java
sets
private static String _persistentUserWorkflowsDirName = "MyWorkflows";

It looks like DotKeplerManager ignores _alternateDefaultOpenDirectory?

To close this bug, either:
1) Fix DotKeplerManager so that it uses _alternateDefaultOpenDirectory
or
2) Remove all references of _alternateDefaultOpenDirectory.

BTW - perhaps if _alternateDefaultOpenDirectory was an absolute path that
began with a /, then it could be used as the directory in which to
open?

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