Found a suggestion that moving/renaming these dirs in Nautilus will cause things to be updated:
http://www.nabble.com/-SPAM:1.4--Free-desktop-default- directories-t4470354.html But that doesn't help if you've already got the directories created that you want to use. I renamed the Videos directory to "frabjous" and then searched my home dir for that string and discovered ~/.gtk-bookmarks, which is apparently where the entries in the "Places" menu come from and what is used by the File Save dialogs. Manually updating this causes "Places" to be updated in the various, er, places that they might appear. When I used Nautilus to move/rename these dirs, I saw that user- dirs.dirs was immediately updated with the name/location. So I'm not sure what the point of user-dirs.dirs even is. Setting dirs in it manually doesn't seem to do anything. Sounds like it's meant to be used by other programs to discover these standard locations, but where is their point of origin? Another confusing point was that I thought OpenOffice.org 2.3 Writer was looking at these settings when saving docs, but it was really just using it's own settings. The default is "Documents", and if that dir doesn't exist, it uses ~. So I don't know if I'm seeing a bug at all. It looks like there is still some work to do around these free desktop standard directories and gtk-bookmarks and whatnot. At least they're well-behaved in that if you delete them, they disappear from menus and don't seem to cause any harm. -- New 'Documents', 'Pictures', etc. folders ignore current folders of the same/similar name https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138924 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
