Re: Downloader UI Rationales

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 17:13, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Marco Pesenti Gritti writes: 
> 
> > I think the concern here is that it can happen to click links by mistake
> > (for example because the site doesnt make clear that is a file to
> > download. It happened to me one time on goggle pdfs.)
> > That has several side effects, because the file can be too small to give
> > the user the opportunity to stop download: unwanted files on the
> > desktop, slow apps like oo started ...
>  
> 
> As i mentioned in the previous email, cluttered desktop is definately an 
> issue with using the desktop as the default dir. The solution is tricky 
> though. Slow apps should just be fixed. 

I'm not really convinced using a Downloads dir would solve the problem
completely. Having to delete files you didnt want to download is
annoying in any case.

Marco