Unable to save alternate path to save screenshots - must manually edit XML file to change location

[Myk Robinson]

The GUI in Shutter allows you to change the save path for screenshots, and in older releases of Ubuntu, this worked fine. In 12.10, the provided Shutter package, as well as the updated Shutter package from their PPA, will not keep the user defined path. I was able to work around this by directly editing the XML file using Gedit (located at /home/user/.shutter/profiles/profileName.xml)

Perhaps there is some other package at play that is not allowing the xml file to be properly edited?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: shutter 0.89.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 21 20:57:01 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta i386 (20120926)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shutter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

Ubuntu 12.10 64 bits
This bug still exists in Shutter 0.90 (installed from PPA).

In screenshot1 you can see the folder specified in Preferences but the save folder from a screenshot stills is my home folder (see the title bar: /home/simon/...).

After I exit from Shutter and I open it again the saved folder back to home folder (see "screenshot2")

[Andy (amo999)]

This is also/confirmed happening in openSUSE 12.3 (KDE) with Shutter 0.90 Rev 1252.
Changing the xml config file manually seems to stay in place :-
-- File : /home/{user}/.shutter/settings.xml
-- Parameter : folder="{path/to/folder}"
At least there's this work-around at the moment.

[Nicolas (girard-nicolas)]

This problem doesn't occur any more on Ubuntu 17.04 using Shutter 0.94.
You might want to mark this bug as closed.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

If nobody from the original reporter complains? I will set it to Incomplete, so anybody can shout out in the next two months if the problem is still there.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for shutter (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]