when you receive a file with xchat this is placed in ~/.xchat2 wouldn't ~/download/ be better?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Kristof Vansant">

> When you receive a file with xchat this is placed in ~/.xchat2 wouldn't
> ~/download/ be better? downloading into ~/ would be a bad idea because you
> could overwrite .bashrc for example people said on the xchat forums.  What
> happens if someone sends you a .bashrc file with gaim or you download one
> with firefox?

We're currently using ~/Desktop as the default download location for as many
programs as we can - could you file a bug on xchat about this? We should fix
that default. :-)

Thanks,

- Jeff

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