On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 17:50 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 09:36:55AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On 3/22/11 8:27 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote: > > > In previous versions of Fedora, the Cups-PDF package has saved the > > > PDFs on the Desktop. Now that Gnome Shell defaults to not showing > > > icons for files in the Desktop folder, do we need to point Cups-PDF at > > > another folder? I personally find it confusing to have Cups-PDF > > > saving files to the Desktop folder, but not having those items > > > displayed on the desktop. > > > > > > -- > > > Jared Smith > > > Fedora Project Leader > > > > Isn't there some sort of xdg magic you can do to figure out where the > > "Documents" type folder is and default to that? One of my biggest pet > > peeves is apps that save document type files and default to something > > other than my Documents folder. > > +1, and I believe the answer to your question is "yes": > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs > If you are using glib, then g_get_user_special_dir (G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOCUMENTS) will give you the xdg documents directory. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
