I think having a downloads folder is a good idea, and I have always created it in my home directory as the one place where I configure all of my apps to drop things when I download stuff. Formalizing this practice would be nice.
Eventually, most applications might be configured to check a global downloads preference or for the existence of ~/Downloads or ~/downloads and offer this as the default location to the user the first time the app is used to download something. It's better then dumping things in "." or the desktop or asking me every time where something should go. Doesn't it make sense that there be a global download directory preference that apps can reference, and then not bother the user? And the logical follow-on question is, shouldn't that preference be preset to ~/Downloads ? Apple seems to have made this choice in 10.5. I'm only offering it as a suggestion because it has made sense for me for a great number of years. I don't know what other folks do with their downloads, but making the directory and then educating every app seems tedious and yet trivial at the same time. It's nice to have but certainly not back-breaking labor. I'll keep doing the same thing I've always done even if the GUI doesn't try to help me. Thanks, Dale Glynn Foster wrote: > > Dale Sears wrote: >> Downloads folder on the desktop? > > The current desktop view is a departure to how things currently on with > OpenSolaris Developer Preview - where we've chosen to not show any icons by > default. Can you explain the rationale for each icon that you've chosen to > put > on the desktop? > > I have to admit that I've rarely used any of them during my time using JDS. > > > Glynn > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
