Workspace file dialogs' default locations

[jamshark70]

Could the import/export workspace file dialogs initialize to the last location?

1. When I import a workspace, it's always "Recent."
2. Worse, when I export a workspace, it's always the user's home folder, even if I'm re-saving a workspace into the same location where I saved it last time. Then I have to navigate 6 folders down to the location I want... every... time... it makes me save the workspace less often.

[dromer]

I think this issue is broader than just workspace. Opening and saving pd files also opens on the home folder every time.

[jamshark70]

Opening and saving pd files also opens on the home folder every time.

This may be OS-specific. I don't observe that behavior on my Linux machine: ctrl-O and ctrl-S default to the last opened or saved location.

It's a nitpicky thing, but little workflow details like this wear on the nerves after a while. (And there's a lot of software that doesn't quite do what I would like in that regard. SuperCollider, when saving a new file, goes first to the home directory, not to the location in which you were last working. ?? Audacity's "Export Audio" defaults to the last location to which you exported, not to the location where you opened the original file. ?? LibreOffice has separate "last locations" for opening and save-new, so you open a file, then create a new file and go to save it alongside the file that you opened, but the save dialog is in a completely different directory. ????? Hard problem. There's no good way to guess what the user wants -- my preference is for the last location, but that doesn't mean everybody wants it that way.)

[dromer]

This may be OS-specific. I don't observe that behavior on my Linux machine: ctrl-O and ctrl-S default to the last opened or saved location.

Hmm, I'm also on Linux and here it's consistently the home folder. At least for saving.
For opening it goes to "recent files" in my filebrowser.