Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: normal
Someone made a word document for me, and published it on the web. I clicked it in firefox, and selected to save it. I was very surprised when I wasn't asked _where_ to save it. find -name "document.doc" did not find it either. Saving in an unknown location is too stupid to be true, so I looked at firefox "settings" to see if it had some sort of download directory configured. It had, and it was called "Desktop". An oddball directory I never made and never used. (It existed though, because some stupid software made it for me.) But the file wasn't there - this had failed. I changed the preference to "always ask" and then it worked, i specified a sane directory for that particular file and it got there. I can understand that some people find a fixed download directory convenient, but that sort of thing should never be default, because then the default is to save to a location unknown to the user. The default must be to ask, and the user may then configure automatic use of a *known* directory if he so wishes. The only useable default is the home directory itself, although it is not a good place for storing files directly. Not that it matters much - the silly default "Desktop" didn't work anyway. Helge Hafting -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'experimental'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 Locale: LANG=no_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=no_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.3.6-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System printing extension ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
