0011811: Open file dialog should remember previous typeoffile setting - or default to SLA

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0011811	Scribus	User Interface	public	2013-10-26 08:40	2013-10-26 08:40

Reporter	JLuc	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	1.5.0svn

Summary	0011811: Open file dialog should remember previous typeoffile setting - or default to SLA
Description	When opening a file, a dropdown menu allows to only list files of some type (SLA, pdf, etc). Alas, this setting is not recorded by scribus, hence the user has to repeat that selection every time. Scribus should remember the previous choice of the user and use it by default everytime it is needed. In case it's not possible to do so, scribus should have a setting in the preferences to state the default choice.
Additional Information	As for now, PDF are created by default in the SLA directory. Hence directory is a mixture of SLA (=source) and PDF (= destination). By far most of the time, proposing to open the PDFs is not appropriate. So the default should be "only propose to open SLAs" A related possible improvement would be to add a "Default folder for exported PDF" preference setting, that could receive either a relative or an absolute path : './localpdfs' (or simply : 'localdpfs') or '~/allmypdfs'
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-10-26 08:40	JLuc	New Issue