24 Jan
2011
24 Jan
'11
11:49 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2011/01/24 14:52 (GMT-0600) Timothy Pearson
composed:
On 2011/01/24 14:34 (GMT-0600) Timothy Pearson composed:
Something wrong with simply "Documents"? The one's I've saved
locally
>> aren't
>> necessarily mine anyway.
Well, I do want to convey to the user that the Documents folder is unique
Interesting approach. This would actually be very useful.
Best regards,
Tiago
to his or her profile, unlike the other shortcuts
which point to shared
I think it conveyed well enough by having logged into a personal profile
that uses $HOME.
system resources that are identical across all profiles. Personally I
like "My Documents", but other
alternatives could be "Personal Documents",
"Personal Files" or similar.
Some people are like me and need none of those as a menu item. We know what
app opens the kind of file we want to deal with, and so open the app, and
use its file picker to choose what to work with.
Speaking of which,
https://bug24625.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=87914 from
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24625 shows the ancient file
picker that is the reason I still use OS/2 more than anything else for
routine chores. Most recent dir, most recent file, and most common dir are
the bare minimum acceptable to me for any systemwide file picker. The time I
waste getting the same file reloaded or into another app, or a sibling file
loaded, on anything other than OS/2 is gigantic compared to OS/2. I thought
I filed a KDE bug about this a very long time ago, but can't seem to find it
now. Maybe I did on Mandriva or Novell's trackers.