On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 22:45:45 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Richard wrote: > > >2005/12/22, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>Hi all > >> > >>I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in de latest mozilla > >>package. I am not sure if this is a mozilla bug or a debian package > >>bug so i ask here if more people can confirm this. I am also using KDE > >>and every time when i download something it is dropped in de > >>/home/user/Desktop directory while it was before always dropped in de > >>/home/user directory. I find it pretty annoying to mv these files > >>every time to my home directory from the Desktop directory but it > >>seems i can not set the Download directory in de preferences menu to > >>/home/user. I can set it to /home or even / (but the user doesn't have > >>write rights there) but when i set it to /home/user there is always > >>Desktop selected. Even when the /home/user directory is already set in > >>the about:config page. > >> > >>TIA > >> > >>Richard > >> > >> > >> > > > >Sorry ... I mean i am using Mozilla-Firefox 1.5 > > > > > I see the same behaviour here, with FF 1.5 on KDE on Sid.
This seems to be part of a sort of creeping windozification. Quite a lot of apps now default to this mythical Desktop directory (with the irritating capitalization) -- hardly the place you would want to file everything or anything-- and a lot of others show only an even more mythical Home directory which is actually a completely unnecessary and annoying alias for ~/. I don't see why there is an urge to hide the directory structure from the users -- at the very least it imposes a few extra mouse clicks to open 'filesystem' and then navigate to where you want to be. I suppose that is just another grumpy old man response... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
