Bug 49162 - don't create Desktop by default
Summary: don't create Desktop by default
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: xdg-user-dirs
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Alexander Larsson
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Reported: 2012-04-25 16:33 UTC by william.jon.mccann
Modified: 2018-10-15 07:56 UTC (History)
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Description william.jon.mccann 2012-04-25 16:33:04 UTC 
Now that GNOME 3 doesn't use a Desktop directory I don't think it makes sense to create it by default.
Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2012-04-26 00:15:23 UTC 
I agree that its kinda weird to have a Desktop directory in Gnome 3 which is not used by default. However, other desktops and some gnome 3 users do use it. I'm not sure when we should create it for those.

I guess we could handle the desktop translation etc as before, but not actually create the desktop directory. Then apps can create it as needed with the right translation. Unfortunately the code will reset entries with non-existing directories to ~/ on next login...
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-10-15 07:56:11 UTC 
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