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[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 17:53:44 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 October 2013 16:24:08 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Sunday, October 27, 2013 15:38:08 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > On Sunday 27 October 2013 14:06:34 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > The best answer to this is to have a generic asset handler that simply
> > > > downloads files into ~/Downloads, or whatever the most appropriate
> > > > folder
> > > > is depending on the mimetype.
> > > 
> > > In Plasma Active, all things should go straight to ~/ since we don't do
> > > folder hierarchy ;)
> > 
> > books go into ~/Books.
> > 
> > there is a difference between “we don’t present the file hierarchy to the
> > user in the relevant file UI” and “there is no file hierarchy on disk"
> 
> And what is the advantage of this? 

a) there is no disadvantage
b) if you switch from Active to Desktop, it matters
c) it helps prevent Add Ons from clobbering data you put on disk just because 
you happened to name something “Alice In Wonderland.epub” and then went to 
download the book (in the master branch, Add Ons will refuse to overwrite it 
and give you an error message)

> However, if the same type of file is sometimes obtained via Add Ons and
> sometimes copied onto the device using Files, they end up in different
> folders, and the only way for users to move them to the same folder is by
> using Konsole or installing Dolphin.

if the user doesn’t see this, what does it matter?

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo