Re: Default directory for saving screenshots.

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au> writes:

> Well, the obvious drawback here is that if you aren't using something
> which puts icons on your desktop, you will spend a few minutes
> scratching your head and wondering why the screenshooter applet appears
> broken and then mailing the gnome mailing lists. This can bite even a
> new user, since they may turn off whatever uses .gnome-desktop (e.g.
> gmc) at some point and only much later use the screenshooter app.
> 
> However, that said, we need a default directory and Miguel's suggestion
> seems like trying to make life easier in the default case. If we do
> this, though, can the preferences dialog be altered in some fashion to
> make it _very_obvious_ how to change the directory.
> 
> At the moment, you go to the "files" tab in preferences and I suspect it
> could be a bit overwhelming for a hesitant user. There's an entry box
> that just looks like line noise (the filename template), there's a huge
> description about filename extensions that takes up two thirds of the
> box and right at the top is the directory. I'm a bit concerned that
> people will go "there be dragons!" when they glance at that page and
> miss the directory changer. Or am I assuming too little from other
> users?
> 
> I guess my point is: if you're going to essentially "hide" the images
> from an 'ls' listing, please make it very easy for _all_ users to find
> out where the images went (the "directory to save images in" preference
> tells you this if you notice it).

Which brings us to this old why is ~/.gnome-desktop a dot directory and
not something like ~/GNOME-Desktop or ~/Desktop ....

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