Re: Downloader UI Rationales

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

From: mike <mike redtux demon co uk>
> To: epiphany <Epiphany-list gnome org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:04:09 +0000
> Subject: Re: Downloader UI Rationales 
>
> 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 

Well just to let you know the default is Desktop but it is a configurable as 
well. And we all know home should be desktop anyway :P 

dave