Image doesn't support XDG User DIrs spec

[James Henstridge]

Applications that use the XDG User Dirs spec to locate e.g. the music folder malfunction on the touch image due to a missing ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file.

On the desktop, this is created by the xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update program that runs on login. There is also a version without the GTK specific features that can be run with:

    sudo apt-get install xdg-user-dirs
    xdg-user-dirs-update

That package doesn't contain anything to run it on login, so perhaps a simple upstart session job would be appropriate? This seems like a pretty simple change that would improve compatibility with existing code.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

From IRC:

17:58 <seb128> ogra_, jamesh: in the latest discussions it was not clear they wanted to support customisable/translatables dirs in touch
17:58 <seb128> that adds complexity and overhead
17:58 <seb128> especially for the app isolation/apparmor
17:58 <ogra_> who does that discussion ?
17:59 <jamesh> seb128: if we don't support customisable user dirs, we could still provide the config file pointing at the non-translated dirs
17:59 <seb128> jamesh, that would work for me

So if we don't do the full translatable special folders thing, it would still be nice to provide the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs configuration file so that code that relies on the spec to locate the folders can see the untranslated folders.

[David Planella (dpm)]

I agree, and I don't think there is the need to translate the folder names
on the phone, as they will not be visible.

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, James Henstridge <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> >From IRC:
>
> 17:58 <seb128> ogra_, jamesh: in the latest discussions it was not clear
> they wanted to support customisable/translatables dirs in touch
> 17:58 <seb128> that adds complexity and overhead
> 17:58 <seb128> especially for the app isolation/apparmor
> 17:58 <ogra_> who does that discussion ?
> 17:59 <jamesh> seb128: if we don't support customisable user dirs, we
> could still provide the config file pointing at the non-translated dirs
> 17:59 <seb128> jamesh, that would work for me
>
> So if we don't do the full translatable special folders thing, it would
> still be nice to provide the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs configuration file
> so that code that relies on the spec to locate the folders can see the
> untranslated folders.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219348
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> Title:
> Image doesn't support XDG User DIrs spec
>
> Status in “ubuntu-touch-session” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Applications that use the XDG User Dirs spec to locate e.g. the music
> folder malfunction on the touch image due to a missing ~/.config/user-
> dirs.dirs file.
>
> On the desktop, this is created by the xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
> program that runs on login. There is also a version without the GTK
> specific features that can be run with:
>
> sudo apt-get install xdg-user-dirs
> xdg-user-dirs-update
>
> That package doesn't contain anything to run it on login, so perhaps a
> simple upstart session job would be appropriate? This seems like a
> pretty simple change that would improve compatibility with existing
> code.
>
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-touch-session - 0.66

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ubuntu-touch-session (0.66) saucy; urgency=low

  * make sure ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs is created on login if it does not
    exist yet (LP: #1219348)
 -- Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:01:03 +0200