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pcmanfm package

  1. Bug #1318431
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1318431

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Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707) wrote :

Well, I think I just found out from where the bogus info came.

On Sourceforge, I was told that the Bookmarks come from a file in the user's Home directory.
I just found ".gtk-bookmarks", that contains:
"file:///home/scott/AA_Directory_Hide/Documents
file:///home/scott/AA_Directory_Hide/Music
file:///home/scott/AA_Directory_Hide/Pictures
file:///home/scott/AA_Directory_Hide/Videos
file:///home/scott/AA_Directory_Hide/Downloads
"

This leads to two (at least!) questions:

1. When is this file being read? At installation? At each boot or LogIn?
2. Was this file created automatically, or did someone actually intend to write "AA_Directory_Hide"?
3. What is the purpose of this file?
The contents refer to the same information as is used by xdg-user-dirs, which is a standard part of [L]Ubuntu.

This appears to be useless... These ought not to BE Bookmarks - they are standard places. If someone wants to change where these are, they have already used xdg-user-dirs, and this would only circumvent their changes...
IMHO, Bookmarks should be used to add new places, not change standard ones.