180437 - Chimera leaves temporary file on the desktop when downloading

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Downloading, defect)

Description

[Ken W]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021115 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021115 Chimera/0.6+

When downloading a file, a temporary file is left on the desktop until the
desktop is clicked.  Temp files should not be there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Niklas Dougherty]

Bug 180174 may be in an experimental phase...

Comment 2

[Ken W]

I forgot to mention that my download folder is ~/download , so no downloading
for me has anything  to do with the Desktop.

Comment 3

[Steve Smart]

Having visible files with garbage names can't be a permanent solution.

In-progress downloads should either go somewhere like /tmp or they should be
displayed at the location where they are being downloaded to as partial files
(not a visible file with random text for a name; we then also need to map them
to open in Chimera and have code that brings the appropriate download window to
the front when they are opened). IE in Mac OS 9 did a nice job with this, having
partial files have icons with a progress bar, etc. Obviously dumping them in a
temporary folder is easier.

Comment 4

[Ken W]

I agree that this temporary file should not be on the desktop and should be in
either /tmp or the destination folder.  But personally, I would rather not have
anything happen.  I like to manually deal with downloaded files.  This should at
least be an option if considered.

Comment 5

[Steve Dagley]

The temp DL file, when the DL file goes thru uriloader, goes into the folder the
user has specified as the download folder in the Web tab of the Internet pane in
the System Preferences app.  Unless this was somehow set to ~/Desktop I have no
idea how it'd be showing up on the desktop.  And I have never seen the described
behavior which makes it kinda hard to fix :-)

Comment 6

[Ken W]

Ack.  You are correct.  I don't think I had ever set the download folder in
Internet Prefs, because I always specified where Chimera would download to.  Now
that it is automatically downloading, I had it set to ~/download and it works as
you said.

So as far as I'm concerned, no more problem. :)

Comment 7

[Steve Dagley]

Per user's comments marking bug as INVALID (cause we don't have a
WORKSASDESIGNED resolution)