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

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Tue Nov 16 07:03:43 CST 2004


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:51:01 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> <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. :-)

Could you explain the logic in that? Ubuntu starts with a totally
clean desktop, yet you set programs to download in the desktop?

Regards,
Erik



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