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Hi Chris ;)
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 05:17, Chris Wilson <afrowildo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So basically what you're saying is that you'd like to have downloads
> exhibit the same behaviour between the three browsers that you listed. I can
> see quite a few problems with that.
>
> From a practical standpoint this sounds like it would be very difficult to
> implement as you would have to create a plugin for each browser that would
> override the default download behaviour and bend to our will. This plugin
> will have to be then kept upto date, and so as the browser developers move
> ahead we would have to keep up with them. I think this is more hassle than
> it's worth for the relatively small gains that would be reaped.
>
> Generally I've found it's never a good idea to try and smother an
> application's existing functions with your own since there are always others
> somewhere else in the app that rely on them and things just end up getting
> broken.
>
> In reality most computer users don't bother using anything other than what
> comes with their computer (that's why Internet Explorer is still so popular
> despite the obvious deficiencies).
>
> Given this, I would say that, if this path was even to be pursued, that
> only a Firefox plugin should be created. There already exists the Ubuntu
> branding plugin that ships by default, and that could conceivably just just
> be turned into the general Ubuntu-ification plugin. That's if this course
> were to be pursued, which I don't think it should be.
>
> With Unity going to be the default interface for Ubuntu in the future,
> there're going to be a lot of changes in the way we interact with our Ubuntu
> computers, and it's too early to say what those changes are going to entail.
> Mark Shuttlework has previously stated that he believes the
> files-and-folders method of computing is broken, which leads me to assume
> that he and a few others are working on an alternative. The process of
> downloading files from the web will undoubtedly be one of the things that
> changes, and I don't think it's a good idea to try and come up with a new UX
> for downloading until Unity has been in place for a release or two.
>
Thanks a lot for sharing your opinion on this, also in such detail!
If you wouldn't mind, it would be kind if you could include a quote on
"[...]he believes the files-and-folders method of computing is broken[...]",
i think you're right but i don't quite remember where that came from:
Please repost to list, if you may, and.. its "Mark Shuttleworth" please ;)
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