On Friday 26 November 2004 01:38, Gregory Pittman wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > >On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:14:36 -0500, BandiPat <magicpage91 at earthlink.net> wrote: > >>The sym links are convenient, but I think you should save those for more > >>important work. > > > >In my specific situation, I have seven users who work on (currently) > >three weekly publications using Scribus. Soon to be four > >publications, I'm told. > > > >Through clever use of group permissions and symbolic links, I have > >everything important in several subdirectories of a subdirectory under > >/opt -- the templates for the papers, graphics, commercial ads, > >classified ad databases, and so on. As I'm (usually) a remote > >sysadmin for this application server, this allows me to simply rsync > >the /opt subdirectory to one of my local machines to provide me with a > >backup of everything that needs to be backed up, as well as a copy of > >the current data to work on as required. Scribus (and other X > >applications) are painfully slow to use remotely over a 128k uplink > >except in dire circumstances, so I try to do my work locally and just > >blast the data back to the server as needed. > > > >However, /opt over there is not /opt over here; on this box I stash > >that data on a nfs share that's actually located on a fileserver that > >I keep in my basement.. > > > >Complicated enough for you? It may not be exactly according to Hoyle, > >as it were, but it is very convenient. > > > >Having got that out of the way, the situation that got me concerned > >about this symbolic link stuff in the first place is that I use > >Scribus to create png files for a web page using the bargainhunter > >data that's in > > /mnt/cabinet/home/frankcox/bargainhunter/backup/scribus/regina, but I > > want to put my png files into > >/home/frankcox/bargainhunter/webpage/graphics.cache/regina, which is > >where my script for updating the webpage expects to find the current > >Regina paper. > > > >So I created a symbolic link in /home/frankcox/bargainhunter/webpage > >that points to > > /mnt/cabinet/home/frankcox/bargainhunter/backup/scribus/regina, thinking > > that I could then simply back up one notch to get to the web page after > > loading the Scribus document and telling it that I want to export png > > files. > > > >Nothin' doin'. When I select the "export to png" option in Scribus, I > >find that I am in > >/mnt/cabinet/home/frankcox/bargainhunter/backup/scribus/regina and not > >in /home/frankcox/bargainhunter/webpage/regina like I thought I should > >be. So I have to click and click and click and climb the whole darn > >directory tree again to get back to where I thought I would be in the > >first place after creating that symbolic link. Multiply that by three > >more papers, weekly. > > > >A simple example: If create a symbolic link /home/frankcox/link --> > >/mnt/arcade/home/games, then enter this sequence of commands into > >bash: > > > >cd > >cd link > >cd .. > > > >I find myself in my home directory at the end. If bash worked the way > >that Scribus appears to, I would find myself in /mnt/arcade/home > >instead, and that seems to defeat the purpose of having symbolic links > >in the first place. > > I have not made these kinds of complex linking for saving files, but I > have wished in the past that Scribus saved previous directories. Some > programs now have a widget that you can click on to show you a sometimes > rather extensive list of previous directories you may have either opened > a file from or saved to. I too get annoyed with all the clicking to go > up and down directory trees.
Scribus (at least CVS, I forget if 1.2 does it too) does save the previous directory for a whole range of things. Thats one reason why you have a .scribus/prefs.xml file (as well as it will replace your scribusrc) Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20041126/f3d12191/attachment.pgp
