On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:43:48AM +0000, Jan T. Kim wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:45:32AM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 11/23/05, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
Does anyone like the new file selection boxes? It had me totally confused when I first came across it, the 'directory/folder' window just has the words Home, Desktop and Filesystem in it - it took me quite a while to realise that Filesystem means /. I'm still not sure if I know what Desktop means. ... and nowhere does it display the full path as you navigate. This is Firefox 1.5 release candidate by the way.
It is rather similar to the latest Windows save dialogs.
Such is the price of progress!
I haven't looked at firefox 1.5, but the concept of having a directory (?) called "Desktop" is nonsense on the whole, in a Unix / Linux environment. The "Desktop" should be the login directory -- as far as I can tell, the whole silly idea of having a "Desktop" directory is an atavism from the history of some other operating systems which used to not have a proper (multi-) user management, as a simple means to conceal the clutter of files in the top level directory of the boot partition...
Erm - right - the desktop, even in Windows, is per user, and has been since ~ win 95. Even before that, in Win 3.11 it was possible to give different people different access to things. Technically, I think you'll find that the main reason for Desktop appearing these days is that KDE and Gnome both have desktop areas, which are just a directory within the users home.
*SIGH* - personally, I have no desktop, but then I run ion3, I don't have floating windows (except gimp, and that lives on a floating workspace, which is only created when I need it). I don't follow why people have become pointy clicky beasts, it's giving less control, and more frustration if anything goes wrong (had to deal with openoffice the other day, that frustrated the hell out of me, gimme LaTeX any day).