[Bug 501724] New: firefox 3.5 downloads into some weird wherever-defined directory
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501724 Summary: firefox 3.5 downloads into some weird wherever-defined directory Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Firefox AssignedTo: bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jmatejek@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- There should be a consistent default download location across firefox versions and across distribution releases. On linux, that location should obviously be $HOME. There were some long-standing bugs in firefox that made it impossible, so i got used to downloading to $HOME/Desktop. (note that it's "Desktop" not "Plocha", "Arbeitsplatz" or "页文电子图书") And for a time, it was good. steps to reproduce: 1. do your packaging work 2. download a new version of a package with firefox (yeah, i know, should've used wget). this time it's GraphicsMagick-1.1.5.tar.bz2 3. back to shell, try to copy from download location to current directory: $ cp ~/Desktop/Gra<TAB> (beep) 4. aha, so we're (finally?) back to downloading to home? $ cp ~/Gra<TAB> (beep) 5. check manually... $ ls ~ (nothing of interest) $ ls ~/Desktop (nothing of interest) 6. open firefox download window, right-click the file, show folder !!!! 7. stare in disbelief as a Nautilus window opens with a directory called "Stažené soubory" (that's "downloaded files") !!!! 8. bang head against desk see, this is why openSUSE is hacker unfriendly! well okay, this might be firefox's fault, but anyway. whose braindead idea was this? not only creating a special directory for downloads (what was wrong with downloading to $HOME? oh, i remember, poor windows users don't get to see their $HOME ... alright then what was wrong with downloading to desktop?), but localizing its name? now come on, that is just ... wtf. Additional info: all download-related settings from about:config are on their default states. i like them that way, because i tend to change location of $HOME from time to time, and i can always rely on finding my files in ~/Desktop. (well not anymore, i guess) but granted, not many people move their $HOME around -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Argl, apparently that is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399500
ooooh i seee .... this should be probably fixed in GNOME then i'll raise this on one of the mailing lists (In reply to comment #4)
My Factory installation is en-US so a bit hard to check. Could you please check if you have a file called user-dirs.dirs in your $HOME or in /etc/xdg? I don't but it's apparently the place where the download directory name is defined.
i thought so too, but don't have those files. apparently the defaults are hardcoded somewhere -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #9 from Jan Matejek
I guess that it is not a bug, but a feature. Please check your xdg-user-dirs and xdg-user-dirs-gtk packages.
Note: The fact that GNOME desktop does not require these packages may be considered as a bug.
i don't have any of those. that should mean that i don't have localized directories - if that's the case, then all is well, GNOME not requiring them (put probably suggesting) is correct, and this is a bug in firefox. if directories are still localized even though xdg-user-dirs are not present, i think that's a bug. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #11 from Jan Matejek
Without xdg-user-dirs it should probably use English names, but I am not sure. To migrate them all to localized name, use "xdg-user-dirs-update --force".
See: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-February/007727.html
the mail post says: "Secondly, its the approach that is easiest to opt out of (if you hate this idea) or configure as you'd like (if you have a 10 year old homedir structure)." consider me idea hater who will furiously report bugs if "enabled=False" doesn't disable the behavior ;e) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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