[Scribus] symbolic links

[Craig Bradney]

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
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