Comment 2 for bug 168119

Originator: YES

> To me, it seems fairly logical that saved files go in the same place.

The same place as what? I mean, should explicit user change of the
directory in the dialog be the only way to change this place? The
directory preservation works strangely now -- for Open dialogs it does not
seem to work at all, I always get

(inkscape:30067): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_file_system_unix_get_info:
assertion `g_path_is_absolute (filename)' failed

no matter what directory it has shown the last time, or whether I gave it
a file on command line (expecting following Open dialogs to start in this
file's directory). I have the same directory for "open" as for "save_as"
in preferences.xml, so this is probably a bug -- a separate one.

The goal is to be able to get to all interesting `the same places', namely
the same place you run the program from (for people running inkscape from
command line) and the same place I save stuff the last time (since it works
so now I suppose someone wants this).

If opening files (not just with the Open dialog, but also from Recent
Files and command line) changed to the file's directory (this is what I
expect), most of the cases when one cannot easily get to the last used
directory would be eliminated. The only remaining case would be when one
wants to save a new drawing into the same directory as the last time when
these two drawings are unrelated (i.e. the new one was not based on some
existing one, that would get us to its directory) and he does not have the
directory is Places (bookmarks), i.e. he probably does not use it really
often. In my opinion the need to get into `shell' current directory easily
overweights this.

Alternatively, the other directory could be offered in Places, though how
to do this without confusing people, I'm not sure.