Bug#502670: iceweasel: Default download directory does not respect desktop_is_home_dir

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 05:58:59PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 07:07:01PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > (Sorry it took so long to get there)
> > 
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 04:40:33PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > Package: iceweasel
> > > Version: 3.0.3-2
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > I set the gconf preference
> > > apps.nautilus.preferences.desktop_is_home_dir.  This makes GNOME use
> > > my home directory as my desktop, rather than ~/Desktop.  Firefox 3
> > > does not seem to respect this preference.  By default, it creates a
> > > ~/Desktop directory and puts downloads there.
> > > 
> > > This seems distinct from 495442; that bug states that ~/Desktop still
> > > gets created after changing the download directory, while this bug
> > > states that the default download directory shouldn't point to
> > > ~/Desktop if the gconf setting
> > > apps.nautilus.preferences.desktop_is_home_dir has the value "true".
> > > 
> > > Filed upstream as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443754 .
> > 
> > Iceweasel has been respecting XDG_DESKTOP_DIR since 3.0~b5. I think it's
> > up to gnome to make sure XDG_DESKTOP_DIR is set to whatever is
> > appropriate considering the gnome settings.
> > 
> > Please feel free to reopen and reassign to the appropriate package if
> > XDG_DESKTOP_DIR is still not set when you chose desktop_is_home_dir.
> 
> It actually doesn't respect XDG_DESKTOP_DIR, but it does respect
> XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR now, which works for me.

Err, yeah, that's what I meant ;)

Mike