Re: Trying to understand a permissions failure when writing to ~/Desktop
Re: Trying to understand a permissions failure when writing to ~/Desktop
- Subject: Re: Trying to understand a permissions failure when writing to ~/Desktop
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:36:56 +1100
> On 29 Jan 2016, at 4:51 AM, Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Now that this is all resolved, the next question - why default to Desktop instead of Documents? I'd expect Documents, and I hate stuff that clutters up Desktop - one of the first things I do on new installs is change the default location of screen captures to Pictures.
I would agree with you entirely.
However, some users are… often a little challenged, shall we say, to be polite?
They use a feature of the app to write a bunch of files out, but for the life of them they can’t find where they went. So they complain that the app is “non intuitive” or somesuch. So defaulting to the desktop makes it easy for them to see where the files went, and if they have any savvyness at all, they’ll then change it to somewhere else.
That said, this little epiosode made us rethink this anyway, since we’ll need it to work sandboxed as well as unsandboxed, so now we’ve defaulted to a folder we make inside ~/Documents, and also added a checkbox (on by default) that reveals the written files in the Finder so that they can’t really miss where they went.
—Graham
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