Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#1406 closed Enhancement (fixed)
need tr_getDefaultDownloadDir() for consistency between apps
Reported by: | charles | Owned by: | charles |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | 1.50 |
Component: | Transmission | Version: | 1.34 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
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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.
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Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by charles
- Owner set to charles
- Status changed from new to assigned
Changed 12 years ago by charles
comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by spry
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago 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.
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by charles
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
added in r7113
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..