Comment 5 for bug 338046

charles, I've tested the patch and it fixes the original bug. One thing I've noticed though, is that the default download directory is always ~/Downloads, regardless of what XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR is set too. This is because after the first time you call g_user_get_special_dir() to get the default watch directory, you clear the string returned by that, but that string is actually owned by glib and you can't clear it without messing up the internal glib data structure.

I'll incorporate a fix for that in this patch too.