bug#41030: [PATCH] Make EWW respect XDG download directory by default

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

philip@warpmail.net (Philip K.) writes:

>> I think that is ~/Downloads/ exists, it's a good hint that the user
>> wants to use ~/Downloads/, no matter what xdg-user-dir says.
>
> So should it check for "~/Downloads/" first (and maybe perhaps a few
> other popular directory names in other languages), and unless that
> hasn't been found load xdg.el and call xdg-user-dir?

Yes, perhaps something like that.

But we don't want to do that checking at load time, I think?  And the
same goes for the call to xdg-user-dir -- that doesn't be done at load
time, either.

(And the patch isn't correct as is, either, because xdg-user-dir returns
the directory without a trailing slash.)

So perhaps eww-download-directory should default to a function that does
all this checking and calling?

Any opinions?

And... as far as I can see, xdg-user-dir isn't used anywhere else in
Emacs?  What's up with that?

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