Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

["Chad Groneman" <linuxlistacct@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

It's probably been this way for a long time, but I noticed with beta8 that
firefox defaults to automatically save to the desktop rather than the home
folder or some other location.  It seems to me that this is a quick way to
clutter the desktop, and for users who are unfamiliar with firefox, it might
be difficult to find where to change that default behavior.

Maybe it is this way on purpose because of the "usability studies" (have you
seen any of them?  Where do they get those people?!), but it seems like
there would be something better.

One option would be to revert firefox back to where it would prompt where to
save files by default.  Or, if we don't want that extra window, may I
present another possibility:  My opinion is that if we want downloaded files
to be easy to find, we should have a "Downloads" folder off the Desktop
which would be the default location.  That way less technical users could
find their downloaded files, and it wouldn't clutter the desktop for those
of us who are so busy it's hard to find time to clean the desktop.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks,
Chad Groneman