Bug 8031

Summary:	False assumption for Desktop directory on GNOME
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	Keywords:	janitor
Version:	beta3
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Rafaël Carré 2006-08-27 08:19:28 UTC

A test from xdg-utils asks me if some file appears on my Desktop.

On my Desktop, there is a Desktop/ directory which containes that file, this is
because I tuned Gnome to assume that ~/ is my Desktop dir, instead of ~/Desktop/

On an out of the box Gnome desktop, ~/Desktop/ is the default Desktop directory,
that can be tuned in the gconf boolean key
/apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir

maybe xdg scripts could use "gconftool-2 -g
/apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir" before assuming ~/Desktop/ is
the desktop direct
ory ?

Comment 1 Waldo Bastian 2006-09-09 16:27:03 UTC

Fixed for beta4

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