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

[Lorenzo E. Danielsson]

I must say I couldn't agree more. Why, why, why do you want to clutter
down my desktop with downloads? Have I done something to hurt your
feelings? ;-) There is a reason why I have ~/downloads and a symlink to
~/Desktop/Downloads. How do you simplify things for me by adding
complexity to my life?

Sorry if this comes out as if I'm flaming, but you guys have done so many things so very *right* that I'm a little surprised. It seems to me that somebody may need a little sleep.

++Lorenzo;

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:03 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 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
>