[sprog-users] strange default behaviour in "preferences" dialog

[Zeno G. <zen...@we...>]

Hello,

when opening the preferences dialog for the first
time, the "personal gear folder" field is empty.

If I click ok now, the program tells me that my
gear folder does not exist yet, and asks me whether
I want to create it.

Sure I want, but that does not work, because
(my guess) it tries to call mkdir with an empty
string as argument.

So I get an error message (which is ok).
But the problem is that I cannot leave the
preferences dialog until I successfully created
the gear folder, because (at least for me) the
"cancel" button does not work.

I had to find out that I have to select a folder
name to make it work.

It would be better to put a default folder name
(like ~/gears) into that field.

Hm, I hope I explained that well enough.
If not, just tell me, and I'll try again ;-)

Best regards,
  Zeno