On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@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
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.

Interesting approach. This would actually be very useful.

Best regards,
Tiago