Re: RFC: Common desktop-wide paths

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Sul, 2004-10-03 at 21:05, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > > Disagree, this would clutter my Desktop. But anyway, that should be
> > > optional ...
> > 
> > I'm with Jeff on this. I think making sure people can find their 
> > downloads is more important than keeping "clutter" off the desktop.
> > 
> Besides, it makes people actually clean up their desktop every once in a
> blue moon. :-)

The desktop ends up a natural place for some downloads however and I'm
not sure how you fix the two clashing things

Start web browser
	Drag PDF icon to desktop

v

Start web browser
	Right click PDF, download

Why do they end up in different places ?