Bug 689641 - XDG_DESKTOP_DIR should be equal to the home directory
Summary: XDG_DESKTOP_DIR should be equal to the home directory
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xdg-user-dirs-gtk
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-22 00:40 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-03-22 13:32:47 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2011-03-22 00:40:41 UTC 
Since GNOME Shell doesn't actually use a desktop anymore, there should not be a ~/Desktop directory by default. As such, it might be better for XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" to become XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME" in the default configuration.

Not 100% sure if this is a bug that needs to be filed with each Linux distribution or if this should be filed with upstream GNOME (or both)...?
Comment 1 Tomáš Bžatek 2011-03-22 13:32:47 UTC 
Note that gnome-shell is not the only desktop environment using xdg-user-dirs. Moreover it's not using $HOME either.

Also, file management changes are not yet complete and change is coming for gnome 3.2. I also think this is more for a discussion on one of the developers lists on gnome.org, not for this bugzilla. Feel free to open one there.
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