Use a general ~Downloads-folder for all applications.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Ricardo Pérez López wrote:
> El mar, 05-02-2008 a las 16:30 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort escribió:
>> Ricardo Pérez López wrote:
>>> El mar, 05-02-2008 a las 14:42 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad escribió:
>>>> It would be nice if we had one directory for downloads, whether you
>>>> download using Firefox, Transmission, or something else.
>>> +1
>>>
>>> The "Downloads" directory may also contain a symlink to the aMule's
>>> "Incoming" directory, i.e. "~/.aMule/Incoming". Guadalinex [0] (an
>>> Ubuntu derived distro from Spain) does that similarly.
>> No, as aMule's Incoming directory is used as the shared folder, so you may end
>> sharing the pictures you received via pidgin :)
> 
> Maybe I didn't explain well:
> 
> ~/Downloads
> ~/Downloads/Incoming (a symlink to ~/.aMule/Incoming)

That makes more sense :) Sorry, I misunderstood you. I think Downloads/aMule
would be clearer, though.

> 
> The pictures received with Pidgin will be in ~/Downloads directory,
> outside the Incoming, so you will not share that with another aMule
> users.
> 
>>> It could be even a symlink to the Temp directory (~/.aMule/Temp).
>> This doesn't make sense to me, as you won't probably be able to use the files
>> from there until they have finished (and then they'll be in Incoming...).
> 
> Sure, although sometimes (especially with video files, like movies) the
> files inside the Temp directory can be preview.

Yes, but it adds more clutter to the folder and only a few files can be
previewed, and I think (although I may be wrong) most people don't want to
preview them anyway.

> 
> Ricardo.
> 
> 
> 


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