This is a bug in GNOME libraries, and not ubuntu/unity, which is why
John un-marked it from Ayatana Design earlier
** Also affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: unity
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939224
Title:
Places menu / Nautilus side-bar ignores xdg-user-dirs
Status in Unity:
Invalid
Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Why does Ubuntu/Nautilus/Gnome not use the xdg-user-dirs info?
I have a separate /data partition where my personal info is stored, but I
allowed Ubuntu to set up its /home directory within / so that if/when I install
newer Ubuntu versions or other Linux distros, the app data specific to that
installation will not conflict with that of other distros/versions.
I have set up xdg-user-dirs to point at my /data partition directories for
documents, photos, etc.
However, when I select the Places menu, only the /home/scott installed
documents/photos/etc. directories show up.
I must select Computer, then when the window finally comes up (why is
everything so slow now?),
I can see my directories listed under the Computer heading, but the other
non-used directories are listed first, under Bookmarks.
While it is possible that once in a while, I might want to access the
configuration files or whatever that apps would store in /home/scott, having
the directories under /home/scott the only ones visible from the main Places
menu, and the ones given pride-of-place in the Nautilus side-bar seems not to
make much sense.
I also take issue with the fact that other partitions that I mounted from
/etc/fstab so that I could have easy access to them do not come up in either
the main Places menu or in the Nautilus side-bar, but are accessible only by
clicking on “File System”, and then on the individual directories in / that
fstab sets up.
This includes my /data partition.
Not only that, but two partitions that have nothing in them, and are not
mentioned in fstab ARE available in the main Places menu AND in the Nautilus
side-bar (each as “17 GB File System”).
This same behavior is evident when one uses the “SaveAs” or
“Save-A-Copy” from Evince, Gedit, LibreOffice Writer, Eye-Of-Gnome,
etc. (In fact, I get the impression from the similarity in windows
that appear when the save request is made, that there is some
universal (Gnome?) requester that all(?) apps use/modify to save
data): my personal directories in /data are nowhere to be seen, the
/home directories elsewhere christened “Bookmarks” are there, and the
two unused partitions are there also.
Surely this behavior is nonsensical – stuff that should be easily accessible,
isn't; stuff that is shouldn't be accessible at all (for ordinary use), is...
The purpose of xdg-user-dirs is to REPLACE the original
photos/downloads/etc. locations, so one should expect to see the directories in
(in my case) /data/scott, in Places and Nautilus side-bar, and NOT see the
directories in /home/scott.
I am sure that somebody will tell me how to “fix” this issue, and I
will be happy to accept and implement such advice, but why was this
set up this way in the first place, and if incorrect, why has it not
been fixed...?
I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and usually use Gnome Classic ("Fallback Session"?),
but the same thing seems to occur in Unity and Gnome-Shell (and I believe
Englightenment).
[I have since read that one can access a Places style menu in Unity by moving
the mouse up to the top bar, but I have not tested this out yet to see what it
shows - I suspect it will show the same info as for Classic Gnome's Places
menu...]
-Scott
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