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Bug 449624 - Once desktop_is_home_dir has been enabled once, you can't switch back to using ~/Desktop as the desktop dir
Once desktop_is_home_dir has been enabled once, you can't switch back to usin...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.18.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-06-20 22:02 UTC by Will Farrington
Modified: 2012-04-26 19:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description Will Farrington 2007-06-20 22:02:57 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
On two distros with 2.18.x releases (Ubuntu Feisty and Fedora 7), I've encountered an issue where after I'd been using desktop_is_home_dir and wished to return to default functionality, I could not.

Even when unset, functionality does not work as expected.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Enable desktop_is_home_dir in gconf
2. Disable desktop_is_home_dir in gconf

Actual results:
No changes occur and regardless of the gconf setting, my home dir is used as the desktop.

Expected results:
To return to the functionality of having ~/Desktop treated as the Desktop directory.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
Not sure whether or not it's relevant, but in both cases I had deleted ~/Desktop, but before attempting to re-enable using ~/Desktop as the desktop dir, had remade the directory via "mkdir ~/Desktop"
Comment 1 Will Farrington 2007-06-21 21:41:20 UTC 
Update: Through multiple instances of logging out completely, using gconftool-2 to unset all of the nautilus keys, restarting the PC, and logging back in, still the setting doesn't seem to have any effect any more.
Comment 2 A. Walton 2008-05-15 01:55:15 UTC 
Thanks for the bug, and sorry for the delayed response: I'm not seeing that here. Can you check if this is still the case? Also, can you check that your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file properly has the $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR key set to the desktop location?

This should really go away for certain once bug 469614 is fixed (the gconf key won't exist anymore, since it's redundant ;).
Comment 3 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-04-26 19:26:25 UTC 
desktop_is_home_dir has been now removed from Nautilus, so this is obsolete.