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

[Lorenzo E. Danielsson]

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:

Do you want me to go to the desktop and sit and drag and drop every time
I download something? I'm sure you don't mean that. I've just
misunderstood you.
 
> 
> a) put the file in a non-obvious location (~/downloads is not at all obvious)

Huh? It's not obvious that downloads contains downloads??
> 
> b) require creating new default folders on the desktop (eg, ~/Desktop/Downloads)

Which is not really all that difficult to do. And once you've done it
once, the folder is there. Compare that to having to spend most of your
day drag-n-dropping files because they've ended up cluttering up your
desktop.

++Lorenzo;