297117 - "My Downloads" folder could use an icon, be linked to from the Desktop

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050608
Firefox/1.0.4

One time in the past I made my own "My Downloads" icon using the 'folder with an
arrow coming into it' icon which was previously in the background of the
Download Manager window.

In addition, instead of dumping all the files on the desktop [Nice, but leads to
a messy desktop in the future (I believe this has been mentioned in another
bug)], we could drop a "Firefox Downloads" shortcut which has this same My
Downloads icon onto the users Desktop.

I'd prefer the icon to be in the style of My Music and My Videos.

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Actually, wouldn't this be more OS Integration?

Component: Download Manager -> OS Integration

Comment 2

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** Bug 297132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Disregard that last dupe message, it is in fact not a dupe (misduped).

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

If we were going to do this type of thing, we'd use the XP My
Documents/Downloads folder that IE defaults to, not create a separate downloads
folder.