document path as download target?

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 26 June 2009 11:24:55 Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> On Friday 26 June 2009 10:04:13 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 June 2009 23:25:29 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > > Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> > > > Hi y'all,
> > > >
> > > > In the "About Me" KCM several paths can be set and I did as
> > > > following:
> > > >
> > > > Documents path: /home/foo/documents
> > > > Download path: /home/foo/download
> > > >
> > > > Strange is that when I want to save a file (from konq, kmail, etc.)
> > > > the file dialog shows the documents path by default. Seems like it
> > > > should point to the download path instead. The question is what's the
> > > > meaning of the documents path here and how it should be used in
> > > > general (e.g. used as a saving target for koffice and similar apps)
> > > > or whether this is a bug.
> > >
> > > What version of KDE-4 are you using.  When asking a question such as
> > > this, it is a good idea to include that information.
> > >
> > > I tried this in Trunk and it does still select Documents as the
> > > default.
> > >
> > > IMO, this is a bug.  The function: "KGlobalSettings::downloadPath" has
> > > been added to KDELibs::KDEUI and it should be used.
> >
> > I don't see this as a bug at all.  I certainly don't see attachments to
> > mail as in the same class as Internet downloads.  Why do you think they
> > should be treated the same?
>
> Because after all, there downloads, speak not present on my computer but
> going to be. I always have to move files into a more appropriate place
> after downloading (in folders for movies, pictures, etc.). People have
> different opinions on what documents really are. To me this is everything
> text-like (e.g. produced by koffice, openoffice, ...), you might argue that
> everything is a document somehow. The question is then why we have
> "Document path", "Movie path", "Download path" and all the others if
> everything happens to land in "Document path" anyway?
>
> At least konq should respect the "Download path" by default and not use the
> "Document path" IMHO.

I'm sorry, but I still do not see this as a download.  Therefore this is 
always going to be a matter of opinion, and no solution is going to please 
everyone.

Whatever is decided, the current situation, where you are free to navigate to 
a preferred folder, remains.

Anne
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