deja-dup Ubuntu One folder is unfortunately named
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Déjà Dup |
Expired
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
One Hundred Papercuts |
Expired
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
deja-dup (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
When the user chooses to synchronise their backups on their desktops via Ubuntu One, the name of the directory they are given to keep them in is not user friendly. While deja-dup is indeed the name of the backup application shipped with Ubuntu, no reference is made to this anywhere whithin either the software or documentation. I propose that this folder be renamed 'Backups', or a variation on a theme.
I'm not sure if this issue needs to go upstream. Does anyone know if it does?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: deja-dup 20.1-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 12 01:10:35 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: deja-dup
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in deja-dup (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in deja-dup: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in deja-dup (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in deja-dup (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | nobody → Paper Cuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja) |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in deja-dup (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Confirmed |
Changed in deja-dup: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
importance: | Medium → Low |
assignee: | Papercuts Ninjas (papercuts-ninja) → nobody |
Changed in deja-dup (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
assignee: | MoHcasLu.H (braunsvillevibez) → nobody |
I sympathize, but there are some problems with a sensible name like "backups":
* It would need to be translated
* Translation means if the user changes their language, their default backup location would change (do we offer to rename the remote folder? Keep using old translation?)
* Translation means it would be harder in the future to automatically detect a backup folder to restore from [1]
And the problem with 'deja-dup/' is somewhat mitigated by introducing the name the first time the user uses the program and in the help documentation. Though admittedly, that is not much branding (intentionally).
In summation, I'm not sure how to fix this or whether we want to.
[1] There are other solutions for this, like scanning for folders two levels deep that contain duplicity- *.difftar. gz files or some such