Comment 34 for bug 15179

Because sometimes they download something, and expect to be able to find it
later ...
I think this is how a desktop background got disappeared in one case.

On 15/05/07, Alexander Sack <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:15:50PM -0000, Sean Kennedy wrote:
> > Yes, I think the general Downloads dir would get too crowded.
> > What about a personal downloads directory (like was originally
> proposed),
> > say ~/.webfiles or ~/.firefox/webfiles? Things downloaded to this
> directory
> > should be saved read-only so the user will be prompted to save the file
> > somewhere else if they edit it (from whatever program they use to edit
> it).
> > It should be possible to have this directory automatically cleaned when
> the
> > other personal data is cleaned, probably with a warning though, like
> when
> > forgetting saved passwords (I think that is the one with the warning).
> > There should be a way, for those who like the current behaviour, and
> know
> > what they're doing, to change this directory back to /tmp.
>
> Then why not just save as read-only and keep the downloads in tmp?
>
> - Alexander
>
> --
> Users should be discouraged from editing temporary files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15179
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