True story: last night I was thinking about how great a Magical ~/Downloads/ folder would be, so that downloaded PDFs, videos, documents, whatever would automatically get moved into my ~/Documents/ and my ~/Music/ and my other folders. I thought, hmm maybe I'll make a wish on http://bugs.kde.org/ for something like that. Granted, not everyone wants it as their Downloads/ folder (and not everyone even has that; Iceweasel and Firefox set it up in 3.5 and beyond and I don't know if Konqueror, ReKonq, or Aurora even use it). But it was an interesting idea.
Today, I went to look for a Twitter-following plasmoid, and came across Magic Folder: write some rules, drop some files, and they get automatically sorted, just as I was hoping for! Is this Magic or what?
Now, it isn't a real folder in that there is no path to get there in a file browser, and therefor it cannot be set in Iceweasel as the location for my downloads. But, with time perhaps it can be a real folder, or maybe it can monitor a real folder.
The Downloads/ Magic Folder is even the first suggestion on the Plasmoid page.
Free Software and the community, always one step ahead and fillingin the blanks. Thank you to bizzl who wrote the plasmoid.
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