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Bug 245299 - Pollution of users' home directories
Pollution of users' home directories
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xdg-user-dirs (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Tomáš Bžatek
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Reported: 2007-06-22 05:19 EDT by Olaf Fraczyk
Modified: 2015-03-03 17:31 EST (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-06-16 21:41:29 EDT
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Description Olaf Fraczyk 2007-06-22 05:19:08 EDT 
Description of problem:
Additional directories are added to the home directory.
User is not presented with an easy way to get rid of them.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login in gnome
2. open home directory
3.
  
Actual results:
New directories created in home directory

Expected results:
No directories :) - In my opinion of course.
Could be an installation option.

Additional info:
If you really feel that this is necessary, it would be wiser to put them in
Desktop directory. Even better to group them there as "My_Folders" or something.
So we would end with:
$HOME/Desktop/My_Folders/Documents
$HOME/Desktop/My_Folders/Videos
$HOME/Desktop/My_Folders/Music etc.

Putting them on the Desktop will make it more accessibe for "desktop users",
will less annoy "more advanced users". This is similar in a way with Evolution
putting it's folder without the leading dot in home directory in the past.
Comment 1 Andre Robatino 2007-06-22 05:42:59 EDT 
  I agree with this.  If users could count on standard $HOME directories always
being dotfiles, it would be easy to avoid collisions with them when restoring
from backups (as when doing a clean install).  I don't see why it was necessary
to have even a single non-dotfile directory "Desktop" in past versions.
Comment 2 Bert DeKnuydt 2007-06-22 07:43:10 EDT 
I didn't want this neither, but luckily,y ou can switch off this
'feature' like this:

  sed -i 's/enabled=True/enabled=False/' /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf

Maybe shipping with enable=False is a solution?
Comment 3 Zing 2007-11-13 15:53:56 EST 
Totally agree with Bug Reporter.

Since ~/Desktop was forced onto us, the default xdg-user-dirs should be rooted
into that tree, NOT my $HOME.  The number of default directories seem to have
grown from F7 too, polluting up the $HOME dir?

The defaults annoy me so much that I need to say "me 2".  Stick these dirs into
~/Desktop for the newbies please.
Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 09:15:05 EDT 
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-06-16 21:41:27 EDT 
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