Re: Downloader UI Rationales

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 22:01, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Xan Lopez wrote:
> 
> > Well, I think Desktop is more visible, but I don't really have a strong
> > opinion about where to put files by default (as long as they are "easy"
> > to find).
> 
> For the ordinary user, I have a strong feeling that the Desktop (ideally
> equal to $HOME, but that's another discussion) is the most obvious place
> to find their downloaded files.
> 

just to comment, personally I hate this idea. The whole thing about the
desktop is that it is normally covered with windows.

Also if you look at any windows user desktop, its normally covered in
downloaded/saved files, precisely because of this behaviour

I vote for ~ or a user defined dir

> A 'Save as...' context menu item is fine with me, but of course anyone
> could open the target folder in nautilus and just DnD the desired link
> there. (Come to think of it, I'm not even sure if this is possible right
> now. It should be, if it isn't. :-)
> 
> regards,