On 16 Mar 2006 at 22:29, Chad Groneman wrote:
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.
FYI: In 10.0 GNOMEs screen shot utility does the same. Maybe it was intended as a reminder to clean up your desktop after work ;-)
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.
The idea is good. Actually I'm practicing that. I even have added a directory ~/Download/OLD where I move all older files. Once I'm tight on space I empty the OLD folder and the game starts from the beginning. Regards, Ulrich