On 17 Mar 2006 at 10:40, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > Am Freitag, 17. März 2006 06:42 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer: > > Hi, > > > > On 2006-03-16 at 22:29:47 -0700, Chad Groneman wrote (shortened): > > > 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. > > > > The current behaviour is the default Firefox behaviour. We haven't > > modified it. > I remember, that Suse Firefox 1.0.X under KDE came with KDE integration, so > you could simply choose in Konqueror where to save downloads. Would be nice > to have this integration also for Firefox 1.5.
See "about:config" and "browser.download.dir" in Firefox. > > Also you could replace the default download window with the dialog appearing > if you choose save as. > > There is another problem with the font size and the download window. In most > cases you cannot see the string behind "All files were saved to: " as the > Cancel button is there. So this is really _stupid friendly_, not user > friendly. Regards, Ulrich > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > Marcel Hilzinger > > Linux New Media AG > Süskindstr. 4 > D-81929 München > Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 > Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
