On 16 Mar 2006 at 22:29, Chad Groneman wrote: > Hi, > > It's probably been this way for a long time, but I noticed with beta8 that > firefox defaults to automatically save to the desktop rather than the home > folder or some other location. It seems to me that this is a quick way to > clutter the desktop, and for users who are unfamiliar with firefox, it might > be difficult to find where to change that default behavior. > > Maybe it is this way on purpose because of the "usability studies" (have you > seen any of them? Where do they get those people?!), but it seems like > there would be something better.
FYI: In 10.0 GNOMEs screen shot utility does the same. Maybe it was intended as a reminder to clean up your desktop after work ;-) > > One option would be to revert firefox back to where it would prompt where to > save files by default. Or, if we don't want that extra window, may I > present another possibility: My opinion is that if we want downloaded files > to be easy to find, we should have a "Downloads" folder off the Desktop > which would be the default location. That way less technical users could > find their downloaded files, and it wouldn't clutter the desktop for those > of us who are so busy it's hard to find time to clean the desktop. The idea is good. Actually I'm practicing that. I even have added a directory ~/Download/OLD where I move all older files. Once I'm tight on space I empty the OLD folder and the game starts from the beginning. Regards, Ulrich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
