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

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:26:41 +0000, Lorenzo E. Danielsson
<lorenzo at aponkye.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

With a default desktop, yes.  
 
> >
> > a) put the file in a non-obvious location (~/downloads is not at all obvious)
> 
> Huh? It's not obvious that downloads contains downloads??

I't snot obvious because you can't see it.  Basically my point is that
clicking "Computer -> Home" in the panel menu and then clicking the
'downloads' folder is not obvious or intuitive.  With the default
setup the file just appears and can be delt with appropriately.

> > 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.

It's not difficult but if we are going to add a Downloads folder to
the default desktop then we should probably add a few others as well
(eg, Documents).

Regards,
Tom

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