Ticket #1406 (closed Enhancement: fixed)

Opened 2 months ago

Last modified 2 months ago

need tr_getDefaultDownloadDir() for consistency between apps

Reported by: charles Assigned to: charles
Priority: Normal Milestone: 1.50
Component: Transmission Version: 1.34
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Right now the cli and daemon clients use getcwd() to determine where to download torrents. This has confused several users and is more arbitrary than having a good default shared between the clients.

Both the Mac and GTK+ clients default to $HOME/Downloads/ so that is probably what we should use. I'm not sure what the correct win32 default would be.

Attachments

download-dir.diff (7.8 kB) - added by charles on 11/02/2008 06:43:41 PM.

Change History

11/02/2008 04:48:07 PM changed by charles

  • owner set to charles.
  • status changed from new to assigned.

11/02/2008 06:43:41 PM changed by charles

  • attachment download-dir.diff added.

11/08/2008 08:34:45 PM changed by spry

On win32 it's also usual way to create a default location at %MyDocuments?%/My downloads/ or something similar. But, on other hand, it's bad way for system, to store large files on system disk, on other hand, many _users_ do not bother about that..

11/08/2008 09:42:34 PM changed by charles

in that patch, the win32 deafault would be a "Downloads" directory on the desktop, I think. I suspect that follows the principle of least surprise, since most users would expect the downloads to show up somewhere in their desktop.

11/15/2008 06:40:11 PM changed by charles

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

added in r7113