Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 245299
Pollution of users' home directories
Last modified: 2015-03-03 17:31:23 EST
Description of problem: Additional directories are added to the home directory. User is not presented with an easy way to get rid of them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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.
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.
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?
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.
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