Description of problem: the standards say the the desktop folder is the one pointed by ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to be the value of XDG_DESKTOP_DIR as the folder assigned to be the desktop is translatable Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xfdesktop-4.4.2-3.fc9 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a fedora with gnome (or KDE) in any language other than English (so that Desktop is not called Desktop) 2. login to gnome/kde so that that folder is created 3. logout 4. login into xfce Actual results: the desktop shown is the ~/Desktop not the localized folder Expected results: the folder pointed by XDG_DESKTOP_DIR in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs Additional info:
Xfce upstream has no support for XDG user dirs (yet). ;( However, happily we have a patch for f10 that will work and hopefully do the right thing. Can you retest on rawhide? See bug 457740 for more info. I suppose we could backport to f8/f9, but it's a pretty large amount of change at this point. Adding christoph to see what he thinks here.
I'll be glad to test them can I get the packages with yum --enablerpeo=rawhide installgroup xfce-desktop without installing F10 BETAs
Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way to partially upgrade like that. You would be better off just upgrading all the way to rawhide, or testing using a Live media. The Beta and the weekly snapshot isos from today should either one let you do that.
(In reply to comment #1) > Adding christoph to see what he thinks here. IMO we should wait until we figured out what goes wrong in bug # 465805 and till Xfce 4.4.3 has been pushed. Or we should apply the patches directly in the 4.4.3 update (if they are not already applied upstream). Nevertheless this needs testing, I don't want to risk breaking anything.
Muayyad: Can you test with F10? The 4.4.3 there should have the patch and be working... feedback would be most welcome.
I guess it works in F10 but it does not create those directories if they does not exist but I'm not sure I'll do some texts on virtual machine to install xfce alone without kde nor gnome and I'll check if it create ~/Desktop or not at first login thanks for your interest
It works in F-10 and I will also make those changes to F-9 after we have finished Xfce 4.6 in rawhide. xdg-user-dirs-update should take care of creating the updates, so we need to require it in xfdesktop I guess.
good, > I'll do some texts I meant tests
xfdesktop-4.4.3-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfdesktop-4.4.3-1.fc10
xfdesktop-4.4.3-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xfdesktop'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-3230
xfdesktop-4.4.3-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.