The current default download directory for XChat is ~/.xchat/downloads/ which [in terms of our user experience] is crap(tm) :-) To keep things centralized it'd be nice if XChat used the GConf key that we have for Epiphany downloads directory (/apps/epiphany/directories/downloads_folder), of course since XChat doesn't use GConf we can't keep up with a the user possibly changing the directory. For now lets change the default download directory to ~/Desktop/Downloads [which is Epiphany's default] so we will at least keep things a little more sane for first time installs that use XChat for some reason. Hopefully XChat will try to start using GConf in the future although this is not likely I suppose.
Migrated upstream as: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=350239&aid=1015549&group_id=239
reopening since i believe that closing upstream means more that the problem is being handled upstream, not just that a bug has been filed and the problem isn't getting fixed. This isn't a high priority bug, but if upstream isn't interested in the user experience it's our job to patch or find new software that is.
The problem is being addressed upstream, though it appears to have stagnated due to lack of input. From the upstream bug: ----------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-08-27 05:36 Sender: ckorff Logged In: YES user_id=69287 different people, different desktops - Support for one speciefied Desktop should be done by the distribution. Nobody needs a additional dependency (GConf) However, this is only my opinion as xchat user. ----------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-09-20 06:30 Sender: zed Logged In: YES user_id=5012 Does ~/Desktop work on KDE too? ----------------------------------------------------- Please follow up using the upstream bug.