#685 closed Enhancement (fixed)
Use XDG user dir to set download directory
| Reported by: | LucaFerretti | Owned by: | charles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | 1.06 |
| Component: | GTK+ Client | Version: | 1.04 |
| Severity: | Minor | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
The xdg-user-dir is a freedesktop.org tool/spec useful to manage well known user directoris (i.e. desktop, music folder, video folder, documents folder...). This tool/spec is useful because:
- defines and creates common directories
- update directory names to match current locale
It's used in GNOME Desktop starting from 2.20.
It could be intersting set the default download directory checking the one defined by xdg-user-dirs, instead picking up $HOME.
Glib provides the g_get_user_special_dir() but unfortunately starting from recent 2.14 release.
I think the better way to do implement this in Transmission is use the $DOWNLOAD directory defined by xdg-user-dirs if default-download-directory key in configuration is empty.
PS note that the default location is $HOME/Download/ but some vendors (read Ubuntu) have changed it to $HOME/Desktop :-(
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by LucaFerretti
- Component changed from Transmission to GTK+ Client
- Owner set to charles
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by charles
- Type changed from Bug to Enhancement
- Version changed from 1.03 to 1.04
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by charles
- Severity changed from Normal to Minor
comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by charles
- Milestone changed from None Set to 1.10
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
comment:5 Changed 15 years ago by charles
1.0x: r5083
comment:6 Changed 15 years ago by charles
- Milestone changed from 1.10 to 1.06
comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by charles
Also see r5214, which is useful though it wasn't reported in time for 1.06. Basically if g_get_user_special_dir() fails we fall back to g_get_home_dir() again.
trunk: r5082
Note that this will only affect new users.
To avoid confusion, existing users' settings are preserved.