Bug 710884

Summary: Desktop Directory is set but is not relevent in Gnome 3
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: NickG <exosyst>
Component: xdg-user-dirsAssignee: Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 15CC: elad, tbzatek, tsmetana
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-06-06 05:04:59 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:

Description NickG 2011-06-05 13:50:33 UTC 
Description of problem:
The XDG_DESKTOP_DIR is set to $HOME/Desktop which doesn't work correctly on Gnome 3. Removing the desktop manually doesn't work, and it still shows in GTK's bookmarks anyway

How reproducible:
Everytime from fresh install

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open home directory
2. Observe Desktop directory
  
Actual results:
Desktop directory is shown, but doesn't map to the actual desktop

Expected results:
No Desktop directory or show desktop directory contents on desktop

Additional info:

Either remove the ~/Desktop directory (preferred) or reenable the ~/Desktop -> Desktop mapping in Gnome

The simplest fix I've found is to edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and replace the line:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
with 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
Comment 1 Elad Alfassa 2011-06-06 05:04:59 UTC 
Yes, this change is planned for Fedora 16, and iirc it is already done in rawhide.
Closing.



-- 
Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers