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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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