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 13:14 -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 17:26 +0000, Lorenzo E. Danielsson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It seems to me, that your solution just adds an extra step to the
> sit-and-drag routine. With your setup I would have to open Downloads
> window and only then drag files to proper locations, as opposed to
> dragging right from the desktop. If you keep everything you download in
> a single folder, you probably do not download that much or have
> excellent memory, but some people prefer to have separate locations for
> (as an example) photos, music and source code.
> 
> 

Funny how you have drawn conclusions about me. But 2 out of 2 wrong I'm
afraid. I do download a lot, and my memory is so bad that I can hardly
even remember my own name.. ;-)

No extra step really. Just write a script in your favorite language the
reads the directory based on rules, like extension, MIME type or
whatever, and act upon it. So that .jpg files go to ~/images, .ogg go to
~/music and so on. Then monitor the directory for incoming files. Or set
up a cron job to do it whenever you want.

You will still be left with a lot of files in ~/downloads. For me most
of those files are temporary junk that I will read when I get home and
then shred. The point is that I don't want those files on the desktop.

But as somebody pointed out it's not difficult to change the defaults.
It's just that *most* of the Ubuntu defaults have been so good..

++Lorenzo;