Re: RFC: Common desktop-wide paths

[Tristan Buckmaster <tristan buckmaster gmail com>]

> The Mime types are hierarchical EG "Audio" which contains subtypes for
> individual audio types so in that case you could specify all Audio files
> to have a default location of $Home/Desktop/Music.

Yes but they don't go far enough to classify something as music or a
photo, etc...

> The advantage of using Mime is that it gives you fine grained control of
> what goes where thus making it useful for more advanced users who want
> to customise things to a higher degree.

You already have this fine grained control with the current system web
browsers employ.  If the last saved file of the same mime type went in a
particular folder, then you most likely want to put the file in the same folder.
Say for example you are saving source code files of a project one by one. At
the same time as you are downloading the source files you maybe download
some images of penguins and storing them in a directory you made called
'penguins'.  This works great as you only need to point your browser to the
right directory twice.  Using the system you desccribed would require the
user to point the brower to the correct location everytime and the 'penguins'
folder and the project folder are not default folders.