difficult download location

[Jack Wasey]

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

Not sure why the default download folder is hidden away in /home/user/.xchat/downloads
This can't have been given a lot of thought. How about /home/user , /home/user/Desktop /home/user/Documents...

Anything, but a subfolder of a hidden folder.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Jack Wasey (jackwasey)]

the default download folder is /home/user/.xchat/downloads - yes it is reproducible.

specific steps above.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you didn't describe steps to download something using an IRC client

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Is this reproducible with Ubuntu 9.10 the Karmic Koala? Please test and provide us of feedback about it, Thanks in advance..

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Steps to reproduce:
0. Launch xchat
1. Edit > Preferences > File Transfers
2. Click dropdown next to "Download files to", note that it specifies "downloads"
3. Choose "Other...", note it pops up fileselector set to ~/.xchat2 with "downloads" selected.

I agree this should be changed, but would suggest using ~/Downloads (or the XDG equivalent).