$HOME/Desktop and $HOME/Documents are hardcoded

[Khashayar Naderehvandi]

It seems like some paths are hardcoded in gnome-main-menu, notably $HOME/Documents and $HOME/Desktop. Instead, $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs should be parsed in order to learn which folders are the appropriate ones with regards to the user's current locale. As things are now, when GMM is started $HOME/Documents is created (in addition to my $HOME/Dokument), and under the 'places' tab there's a Desktop button that points to a non-existent Desktop dir.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the issue is known upstream, you can read about it on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486548

[Gert Kulyk (gkulyk)]

For intrepid, this bug (as well as many others) should be fixed in a recent upload of the package to my ppa:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gkulyk/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gkulyk/ubuntu intrepid main

Please test it, if it is working for you, I'll attach the patch to the upstream-bug-report.

[Khashayar Naderehvandi (khashayar)]

Thank you very much!

The package from your ppa solves the issues reported here, as well as a bunch of others. Please attach the patch to the upstream bug-report!

[Khashayar Naderehvandi (khashayar)]

Gert, not much seems to be happening on the upstream bug. How about you trying to push the changes directly to Ubuntu (Jaunty) instead?

[Maxxer (lorenzo-milesi)]

gert, do you still keep your ppa updated?

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

I am working on it and hope to get this into Lucid.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Adding libslab, since some parts are there now and not in gnome-main-menu anymore. Furthermore,

I have pushed commits to my branches to fix this bug:
  git://git.debian.org/users/jak/gnome-main-menu.git
  git://git.debian.org/users/jak/libslab.git

and hope that someone pulls those branches into the gnome.org ones (I already sent an email to them). I'll probably upload a new package with those patches in a few days/weeks.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Just committed the changes to the pkg-gnome repository on svn.debian.org, once the package is uploaded and synced, this bug will be closed automatically.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libslab - 2.27.91-3

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libslab (2.27.91-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * use-xdg-user-directories.diff: Use XDG user directories instead of
    hardcoding $HOME/Desktop and $HOME/Documents (LP: #259051).

libslab (2.27.91-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Merge patches from openSUSE / Novell
    - libslab-bnc187879-fix-crash.patch: Fixes a crash
      See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=187879
    - libslab-bnc536778-fix-libslab-split.patch: Fixes parts of gnome-main-menu
      which were empty because libslab looked in the wrong location.
      See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=536778
    - libslab-bnc537483-fix-redraw.patch:
      See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537483
  * debian/rules: Disable dh_auto_test because it fails due to the upstream
    buildsystem thinking that files in .pc have to be translated.
  * debian/control: Set Standards-Version to 3.8.4.
  * debian/libslab0a.lintian-overrides: Add an override for the soname.
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:38:21 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-main-menu - 0.9.13-5

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gnome-main-menu (0.9.13-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * nm-glib-0.8.diff: Only check for NM if we have iwlib (Closes: #569537).

gnome-main-menu (0.9.13-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Use dh_autoreconf instead of manual autoreconf stuff.
  * debian/rules: Pass --with quilt to dh on clean.
  * fix-binutils-gold-build.diff: Fix build with gold (Closes: #554655).
  * use-xdg-user-directories.diff: Use XDG user directories instead of
    hardcoding $HOME/Desktop and $HOME/Documents (LP: #259051).
  * nm-glib-0.8.diff: Support new libnm-glib name in NM 0.8 (Closes: #569320).
 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:25:31 +0000