On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:15:50PM -0000, Sean Kennedy wrote: > Yes, I think the general Downloads dir would get too crowded. > What about a personal downloads directory (like was originally proposed), > say ~/.webfiles or ~/.firefox/webfiles? Things downloaded to this directory > should be saved read-only so the user will be prompted to save the file > somewhere else if they edit it (from whatever program they use to edit it). > It should be possible to have this directory automatically cleaned when the > other personal data is cleaned, probably with a warning though, like when > forgetting saved passwords (I think that is the one with the warning). > There should be a way, for those who like the current behaviour, and know > what they're doing, to change this directory back to /tmp.
Then why not just save as read-only and keep the downloads in tmp? - Alexander -- Users should be discouraged from editing temporary files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15179 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
