Package: nautilus Version: 2.24.2-3 Severity: normal Hi there, for the longest time I've used desktop_is_home_folder with nautilus. Today I decided to revert to the default so I flipped the gconf value and restarted nautilus. To my surprise nautilus continued to render $HOME onto the desktop.
I find <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/+bug/154037> which describes my problem. I think because I didn't have a ~/Desktop when xdg-user-dirs was introduced, it defined a variable in ~/.config that said "the desktop is $HOME". Nautilus is therefore finding $HOME either way. I'm filing this against nautilus rather than xdg-user-dirs because this behaviour *seems* to make sense from xdg-user-dirs POV, and if I remove the file and re-run xdg-user-dirs-update, it re-assigns desktop to ~/Desktop (if the folder exists). It seems to me that if this is the new way of specifying what the desktop is, nautilus should always display the desktop and this key should be removed or at least deprecated. The long description for the key says "If set to true, then Nautilus will use the user's home folder as the desktop. If it is false, tehn it will use ~/Desktop as the desktop". Which is now false since it will actually use XDG_DESKTOP_DIR as defined in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs (and whoever chose that name is obviously having a hard time giving up file extensions) In the short term the key long description needs fixing, in the long term the key needs removing (but I guess that needs to be thought through carefully) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages nautilus depends on: ii desktop-file-utils 0.15-1 Utilities for .desktop files ii gnome-control-center 1:2.24.0.1-2 utilities to configure the GNOME d ii gvfs 1.0.3-3 userspace virtual filesystem - ser ii libatk1.0-0 1.24.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbeagle1 0.3.9-1 library for accessing beagle using ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libeel2-2.24 2.24.1-2 Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM ii libexempi3 2.1.0-3 library to parse XMP metadata (Lib ii libexif12 0.6.16-2.1 library to parse EXIF files ii libgail-common 2.14.7-5 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgail18 2.14.7-5 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgconf2-4 2.24.0-7 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2-7 2.24.3-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome2-0 2.24.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-5 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnautilus-extension1 2.24.2-3 libraries for nautilus components ii liborbit2 1:2.14.17-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii librsvg2-2 2.22.3-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 2.0.71-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libstartup-notification0 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libtrackerclient0 0.6.92-1 metadata database, indexer and sea ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii nautilus-data 2.24.2-3 data files for nautilus ii shared-mime-info 0.60-2 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa Versions of packages nautilus recommends: ii app-install-dat 2008.11.27 Application Installer Data Files ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto ii eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-5 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer ii gnome-mount 0.8-2 wrapper for (un)mounting and eject ii gvfs-backends 1.0.3-3 userspace virtual filesystem - bac ii librsvg2-common 2.22.3-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii nautilus-cd-bur 2.24.0-2 CD Burning front-end for Nautilus ii synaptic 0.62.5 Graphical package manager ii xdg-user-dirs 0.10-1 tool to manage well known user dir Versions of packages nautilus suggests: ii eog 2.24.3.1-1 Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr ii evince [pdf-viewer] 2.24.2-2+b1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer ii totem 2.24.3-3 A simple media player for the GNOM pn tracker <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
