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

[Kristof Vansant]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 12:03 -0500, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:26:28 +0000, Lorenzo E. Danielsson
> <lorenzo at aponkye.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Using ~/Desktop as the default location is the only sane choice IMO. 
> Files downloaded to the desktop are immediately accessible and can
> easily be moved afterwards if the user so desires (most likely without
> having to open any nautilus windows).  Any other solution would
> either:
> 
> a) put the file in a non-obvious location (~/downloads is not at all obvious)
> 
> b) require creating new default folders on the desktop (eg, ~/Desktop/Downloads)

But what happens if you use your desktop in a different language?
Download is telecharger in french for example.

Download should be shown in the default language.

What about using a .Download/ folder and let gnome-vfs show that as
Download or Telecharger (French for download) or ... (what ever your
default language is) 

the programs write to .Download/ but the user will open the map by using
the virtual link created by gnome-vfs. (in the default language)