On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:29:57PM -0000, Jeroen van Splunder wrote: > Please do NOT save all files which firefox downloads when you choose > 'open' outside of /tmp. The reason you can choose behind 'open' and > 'save to disk' is obvious: you don't want to keep stuff you 'open'. If a > file is opened by a user and he changes his mind (and edits anyway), > however, he should be warned about saving to /tmp. But wouldn't it be > much better to do this in the GTK file chooser? Just a yellow bar 'Files > in /tmp are temporary' would solve the problem. Only display the bar > when the user 'starts' at /tmp, not when he manually goes there. (If he > does, he should know what he's doing and the bar will annoy him.) Give > the user who understands the filesystem the option to not show the bar > again. > > Changing GTK file chooser is much more reasonable and easier than > changing every application which might save something to /tmp and let > users open it. (These are at least all browser and all e-mail programs.) >
The current idea is to save files for "open" in read-only permissions so the editor will complain to the user when he tries to save the file. This is the best solution for this whole situation and i will probably implement this at some point. Probably this won't make it into gutsy ... but who knows. - 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
