--- On Thu, 9/15/11, Benjamin Johnson <obeythepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Benjamin Johnson <obeythepenguin at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev] how to open links etc To: dillo-dev at dillo.org Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 1:21 PM On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:34:33 -0400, Roger <rogerx.oss at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:16:43PM -0400, Benjamin Johnson wrote:
Easy solution: ask the user whether to open the file, or just save it to disk.
So, the prompt saves my butt 5% of the time, the other 95% of the time I'm harassed by a prompt like in Windows.
IMO, configuring for the fewest clicks possible is best.? And like you said, provide a file with an option to to link in external apps if the user so wishes.? (ie mutt's $HOME/.mutt/mailcap is a good example)
Keeping a file type pointing to null or commented, gets default (download) action?
I didn't want to say much more without being able to help code it, but I don't want to see another prompt popping-up. (ie. Dillo quit prompt) :-/
Then add a "Remember this choice" option so it won't prompt you again.
I disagree that all prompts are automatically bad.? After a while they do get annoying (and there should be some way to disable them), but for new users the verbosity can be helpful.? More importantly, it avoids surprising the user when the program doesn't behave as expected -- it opens instead of downloads, or vice-versa -- and of course, different users will have different expectations for which behavior is "correct."
(In my own software, I always err on the side of verbosity, no matter how annoying it is to me personally -- because as the developer, I know how to disable it on my own machine!)
Is it possible to get either option (or both) into dillo3? Best!