Public bug reported:
When you create a launcher it would be handy to have a checkbox to change the
current dir to the directory containing the executable.
This would help novices and give some relief to the support channels (I spent a
fair amount of time helping people to create .sh files to cd
/home/user/myprogram; ./program).
The target is little programs that come in tarballs like Phun or
TeeWorlds, where you have to change to the application dir before
launching them.
My quick and dirty solution for that was creating a script in /usr/local/bin
(es: cwdlauncher) containing:
#!/bin/bash
cd `dirname $1`
./`basename $1 $2 $3 $4`
and writing "cwdlaunch /home/user/phun/phun" in the "command" field of
the launcher creation wizard.
An integrated solution would be handy, and wouldn't require no more than
an additional checkbox on the launcher wizard.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Creating a launcher shuold give an option to perform "cd" before executing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229069
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