On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Christian Neumair wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:30:23 +0100 > From: Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Gian Marco Fenu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] Default Save Location and Default Save Filetype > in UI config > > Am Donnerstag, den 22.12.2005, 20:58 +0000 schrieb Alan Horkan: > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Gian Marco Fenu wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:55:42 +0100 > > > From: Gian Marco Fenu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Usability] Default Save Location and Default Save Filetype in > > > UI config > > > > > > Hi, it's a long time I use Gnumeric and I would like to have this two > > > policy in the user interface configuration. > > > > Someone was just asking about that on both the Abiword and Gnumeric IRC > > channels. > > > > You best best would be to check bugzilla and see if such as request has > > already been filed against Gnumeric. http://bugzilla.gnome.org > > I believe there is already a similar request against Abiword > > http://bugzilla.abisource.com > > > > By the way this message is a little bit offtopic for this list but I > > understand it is hard to know when to just ask developers directly. > > I've asked Gian to bring this up on the usability mailing list, because > I think there should be a policy, or at least discussions on default
remebering last used locations should help reduce some of the animosity some people feel towards the file chooser I certainly dont think opening in the same directory as the binary is very useful > save locations. We have to investigate the ways people use their folder > hierarchy (was that done already?). For Epiphany, using ~/Downloads, or > ~/Desktop/Downloads has proven to be appropriate, when looking how my > mother uses documents, we might rather have ~/Documents as default save > location, if the software in question was not spawned from an > interactive shell. > > The long-term solution is to dump everything in ~/Documents by default, I would certainly encourage Gnumeric to put files in ~/Documents or even ~/Documents/Spreadsheets/ - Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
