On Monday 30 July 2012 04:57 PM, Christopher Schramm wrote:
> Yes, that's the problem. You can unset the configuration with
> gconftool-2 -u.
> 
> blueman will then use glib to get the user's public share directory.
> glib in terms uses XDG für that. The XDG configuration should be
> ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. I do not know if glib will create the
> configured path if not present; blueman will not.
> 
> If you want to use the path, create it, otherwise set the
> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR variable in the XDG configuration e. g. to "$HOME".
> 
> You can also set the gconf value to whatever path you want. This will
> overwrite glib / XDG.
> 
> Do you think it's a blueman bug that it does not check the path and
> create it (if possible) or give an error message if it's not present?
> Otherwise we can close this.

Thank you for the detailed explanation Christoper.

As a user, I was not aware of these details. In my opinion, blueman
should do the check.

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