Setting default path for Open and Save dialogs in Inkscape

In EasyOS, I want the Open|Save|Download dialog boxes to default to '/home' or some folder under '/home', not '/root'. The current directory before X starts, is set to '/home', which is good enough for most apps. But not all.

I reported on a fix for mtPaint:

http://bkhome.org/news/201909/request-to-change-default-path-in-mtpaint.html

Inkscape is an odd one. Even though it has a "Save to current directory" checkbox in Preferences, it is ignored, and always defaults to '/root'. Even after having saved or opened elsewhere, always defaults at '/root'.

I found a fix, it is to create /root/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml (nothing else in the folder), with this in it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<inkscape
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   version="1">
  <group
     id="dialogs">
    <group
       id="export"
       default=""
       append_extension="1"
       path="/home/media">
      <group
         id="exportarea" />
      <group
         id="defaultxdpi" />
    </group>
    <group
       id="save_as"
       default="org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape"
       append_extension="1"
       enable_preview="1"
       path="/home/media"
       use_current_dir="1" />
    <group
       id="save_copy"
       default=""
       append_extension="1"
       enable_preview="1"
       path="/home/media" />
    <group
       id="open"
       enable_preview="1"
       path="/home/media" />
    <group
       id="import"
       enable_preview="1"
       path="/home/media"
       ask="1"
       link="link"
       scale="optimizeSpeed" />
  </group>
</inkscape>

This was not documented anywhere, I just examined 'preferences.xml' and found all of these  empty path="" entries, so put something into them. Inkscape does not seem to support a global preferences.xml under /etc.

Tags: easy