On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:03:58AM -0700, John Plocher wrote: > Paul Jakma wrote: > >>Or, in other words, maybe the real fix here is to fix Mozilla (etc) to > >>default their download dirs to $HOME/Downloads :-) > > > >/tmp/$LOGNAME/ would have my vote over anything under $HOME. > > > Seriously, why is > change TMPDIR to be /tmp/$LOGNAME > better than > Fix the web browser to download things into $HOME/Downloads > by default (instead ot dumping things directly into $TMPDIR)
Because viewing a PDF is not downloading it, but that's what the browser does, it downloads the PDF and launches the viewer (and note: some of us will always prefer an external PDF viewer to embedding it in the browser). Viewing a PDF is like viewing a web page -- you'd not want every page you view to be saved in ~/Downloads. Instead you want pages cached. So the fix may be to cache some contents just like web pages instead of downloading it into TMPDIR.
