GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 432652
Default downloads directory not useful with xdg-user-dirs
Last modified: 2012-04-06 22:32:59 UTC
As per: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415342#c2 Although I don't think that removing the default location is a good idea, as it's just that, a default location, and it might not be interesting for all the xdg-user-dirs using apps to use that same download location.
What happens if we remove the pref, but the xdg download dir points to a directory that doesn't exist any more because it was deleted?
I don't like the idea either, but Christian seemed to think it was :)
Then this is a wontfix..?
Up to Christian...
If the download dir doesn't exist, we create it, don't we?
(In reply to comment #5) > If the download dir doesn't exist, we create it, don't we? We only create it on login.
MozDownload.cpp:GetFilePath calls ephy_ensure_dir_exists on it, so the download dir will always exist.
So? NOTABUG?
No, I still think we should remove this pref from the prefs dialogue.
Dafault Epiphany 2.30 (Ubuntu 10.04) stores downloaded files in a "Downloads" directory even on a french computer where XDG download = "Téléchargements"
3.4 does the following (and 3.0 and 3.2 iirc): - Check "Downloads" keyword, if so, use XDG downloads dir or ~/<translated Downloads dir>. - Check for "Desktop" keyword, if so, use XDG desktop or ~/<translated Desktop dir>. - Check for an absolute path, if so, use it directly. I don't think we want to remove the preference. Or at least not in the current incarnation of Downloads. Perhaps after a redesign it can be irrelevant.